Rebecca Lawton is an award-winning author and fluvial geologist, former Grand Canyon river guide, and aspiring bodhisattva. She lives and writes on an ephemeral stream in northern California steelhead country, at the foot of mountains walked forever by Miwok, Pomo, and Wappo. Her writing has won 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 and The Island Institute. Visit her at beccalawton.com.
A fresh female voice and a bold take on environmental awareness-great read! - WILLA judges, Women Writing the West, Golden, Colorado . . . 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 . . . deeply important story . . . gripping plot. - Jordan Rosenfeld, author of Make A Scene and How to Write a Page Turner 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