In the tradition of Terry Tempest Williams and Linda Hasselstrom, Page Lambert looks to the West in a wide-ranging search for her heritage, a multifaceted one that she will be proud to pass on to her children. Her journey begins as she and her husband move their young family north to Wyoming from Colorado, transporting five generations of family roots to new soil-but ancient land-land that the Lakota, the Crow, the Cheyenne still consider sacred. In superbly crafted stories of orphaned calves and faithful dogs, of a husband born a century too late, and of two children breathing new life into their threatened legacy, Lambert finds balance and strength from the one unbending link tot he future: the land. Emotionally powerful, lucid and full of insight, In Search of Kinship is a moving portrait of our intimate kinship with the land.