Former Houlton resident Paula Young Lee, whose father was pastor of the United Methodist Church in the 1970s, has written a memoir about her childhood in Maine. Entitled “Deer Hunting in Paris: A Memoir of God, Guns, and Game Meat,” this “hilarious” book follows the author as she runs away from marriage, going around the world and ending up back in Maine again, where she learns to hunt.
Paula Lee
Of her years in Houlton, she writes: “By the following year, we moved again, this time very far north to a town full of snow plows. Not only was Houlton the first town we’d lived in that had shops, it had a real downtown with a shoe store and a movie theater that showed ‘Star Wars’.”
Lee now splits her time between West Paris and Wellesley, Mass. She is the author of several academic books as well as a culinary overview of wild meat called “Game: A Global History.”
Already a bestseller as an eBook, the print edition of “Deer Hunting in Paris” is available at York’s Bookstore and wherever books are sold.
