Cabin Fever

Recommended by USA Today I grew fond fast of this book, and it's hard not to. Fate is a man who brings coyotes and cougars to the page in a thoughtful, beautiful prose that's readable, lyrical, and begs the reader to slow down and take their time. The book is a wide, deep river, best observed with a cup of coffee as the sun's coming up over the ridge and the night's crickets have given way to the scratching and calls of the morning's towhees. -- Terrain.org Tom Montgomery Fate's charming volume is about his search for meaning in the suburbs, a search that takes him to the woods of Michigan where he builds his own cabin...What makes Cabin Fever such good reading is that the author doesn't try to be a modern-day Thoreau...The magic of Cabin Fever is the author's willingness to move back and forth between the two worlds of hectic suburbs and the more isolated nature-soaked cabin. -- Christian Century Cabin Fever is a quietly stunning book, organized around the four seasons, much as Walden is structured...His elegant and rhythmic prose is about embodiment and the fight we must make to swim against the current that seeks to sweep us away from such bold and incarnational living...Not all books invite us to enter their lives in so intimate a fashion, to join our own patterns of living with theirs. But Fate's admission that he is a slow and bungling pilgrim serves as an admonition and a blessing to his readers to go and live, even if imperfectly, this one blessed life we've been given. -- Brevity May touch a chord in a desperate urban-dweller's heart ... may also show ... that Mother Earth's bosom is not always welcoming to mere humans. -- Wall Street Journal His account of a quest for a more deliberate life, inspired by a re-reading of Thoreau's Walden several years ago, is refreshingly modest but also aching with yearning for the Home we all desire. -- Christianity Today His frank, poignant, and fu