PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Rebecca Lawton is an award-winning author and former fluvial geologist and Colorado River guide. Her essays and stories have been published in Aeon, Audubon, Orion, The San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, Sierra, and many other journals. She has published ten books on water, science, and the outdoors, and has teamed with other researchers on numerous technical articles. Her literary awards include a Fulbright Visiting Research Chair, Nautilus Book Award, Ellen Meloy Fund Award for Desert Writers, Waterston Desert Writing Prize, WILLA Award for original softcover fiction, and Pushcart Prize nominations in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.Rebecca river-guided commercially and served as a National Park Service river ranger in the Grand Canyon and other wilderness areas for fourteen seasons. She has researched and presented on climate and water communication as an invited speaker and freelance writer.
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
