Junction, Utah - Lawton, Rebecca

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Résumé :
WINNER, Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award WINNER, WILLA in Original Softcover Fiction HONOREE, indieB.R.A.G. Medallion in Fiction A fresh female voice and a bold take on environmental awareness. Great read! - Women Writing the West Nomadic whitewater guide Madeline Kruse finds herself drawn to the wild rivers of Utah and the tiny town of Junction. After a life on the run from her painful past, there's something-and someone-in Junction that draws her in and away from everything she's known. But when outside forces threaten the land and waters she's fallen for as well as the people she's left back home, she must choose: return to her roots to recover what's left of her family or make a stand in the new place she's come to love. 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...

Biographie:
Rebecca Lawton is an author, fluvial geologist, and former Grand Canyon river guide. She's swum most of the biggest rapids on the Colorado River, often not by choice. Her writing honors include a Fulbright Visiting Research Chair, Nautilus Book Award, Ellen Meloy Award for Desert Writers, Waterston Desert Writing Prize, WILLA for original softcover fiction, three Pushcart Prize nominations in poetry and prose, and residencies at Hedgebrook, The Island Institute, and PLAYA. This is her first book of poetry.

Sommaire:
2014 WILLA Literary Award Winner for Original Softcover Fiction 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?...