Mountain Time

"Golden is here to remind us that where there is beauty and wonder, there is still hope.--JoeAnn Hart ""EcoLit Books"" In this luminous collection, Renata Golden offers us an un-easy love story: with birds and people, mountains and family, history and place. Elegantly researched and exquisitely crafted, these essays have a depth and range that will delight and, yes, astonish.--Susan Fox Rogers ""author of Learning the Birds and editor of When Birds Are Near"" In Mountain Time, Renata Golden writes that mountains create a 'constant hum' connecting the very core of the earth to our own skin. She interweaves stories from her own life with riveting accounts about the Apache and Irish, yucca and Lehmann's love grass, kangaroo rats and leopard frogs who have made a home somewhere and sometime in the complex topography of the southwestern borderland she loves. Golden's gorgeous, instructive collection is the guidebook we need now.--Camille T. Dungy ""author of Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden"" Renata Golden's Mountain Time would be at home with Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek or Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire--or, best, with Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass, for humility and listening and deep awareness of multiple stories and voices. But these gemlike sentences are Golden's own, and they woo me into an affair with a place I've never been. Fierce and beguiling, funny and brave, this is a book about love: how to love a place where you find yourself a visitor, and how to love the life you've won for yourself.--Joni Tevis ""author of The World Is on Fire"""