Rebecca Lawton

Junction, Utah (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

2014 WILLA AWARD WINNER, Original Softcover Fiction

"A fresh female voice and a bold take on environmental awareness--great read!" -- Women Writing the West

". . . an adventure saga, a meditation on earth and water, a novel of pain and injury and the search for healing . . ." -- Lillian Howan, author of The Charm Buyers

". . . beautiful language . . . deeply important story . . . gripping plot. This tale of two worlds meeting and clashing is timely on so many fronts: environmental, political, and personal." -- Jordan Rosenfeld, author of Make A Scene and How to Write a Page Turner

River guide Madeline Kruse wishes she could save the world-or at least her family. With her father MIA in southeast Asia and her ill mother growing weaker searching for him, Maddie escapes into her work. This time she runs to the deep canyons of Utah, where new dramas are unfolding: oil drilling encroaching on wild rivers and threatening water on ranches and farms-everyone's lifeblood. From farmer Chris Sorensen in the town of Junction, Maddie learns how dangerous the growing risks are to the land and water. She differs in almost every way from Chris, though both their families are spinning apart. Can she find their common ground in time to save the endangered people and places she loves?

This debut novel about everything at stake in a forgotten corner of the West "keeps so many dazzling balls in the air: war, love, activism, wilderness--and always, always, the most dazzling ball of all--Lawton's dazzling descriptions of nature." -- Jill Koenigsdorg, author of Phoebe and the Ghost of Chagall

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wavegirl Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780977785629
• Artikelnr.: 62457970

Autorenporträt

Rebecca Lawton is a former fluvial geologist and Grand Canyon river guide who lives and writes in the American West. Her literary honors include a Fulbright Visiting Research Chair, Nautilus Book Award, Ellen Meloy Fund Award for Desert Writers, Waterston Desert Writing Prize, WILLA for original softcover fiction, three Pushcart Prize nominations, and residencies at Hedgebrook, The Island Institute, and PLAYA.

She is a fellow of the International League of Conservation Writers, a member of the Author's Guild, and Alumna of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. She has written eight books and numerous articles about water, rivers, climate, and nature for Aeon, Audubon, Brevity, Hakai, Hunger Mountain, More, Orion, the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, Sierra, Undark, and other fine journals. "Honest in her assessment of the psychological costs of a gypsy life, artful in her understanding of currents and seasons, Lawton depicts the rivers taking away as well as giving . . . " — David James Duncan, author, The River Why and My Story as Told by Water Rebecca Lawton's work " . . . is both mirror and map, a reminder that a life can take the shape of the river itself--fierce and tender, restless and serene, asking us only for our unwavering fidelity to living, moving water." — Ellen Meloy, author, Eating Stone and The Anthropology of Turquoise "Rebecca Lawton doesn't just read water, she understands it, speaks it, lives it, and loves it . . . [she] examines everything from the loss of her mother to marriage, friendship, and work through a shimmering, water lens that reveals remarkable depth." —Pamela Michael, cofounder of River of Words and The Gift of Rivers. Photograph copyright 2021 Rebecca Lawton