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Thu, Jul 08
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Readings By Writers: Claire Boyles
Site Fidelity. Claire recommends buying her book at your favorite independent bookstore or at Old Firehouse Books. https://www.oldfirehousebooks.com/book/9780393531824
Time & Location
Jul 08, 2021, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM PDT
Zoom - Please RSVP for password
About the Workshop
Firmly rooted in the modern American West, Site Fidelity follows women and families who feel the instinctual, inexplicable pull of a home they must work to protect from the effects of economic inequity and climate catastrophe. A seventy-four-year-old nun turns to eco-sabotage to stop a fracking project. A woman delivers her own baby in a Nevada ghost town. A young farmer hides her chicken flock from the government during a bird flu epidemic. An ornithologist returns home to care for her rancher father and gets caught up trying to protect a breeding group of endangered Gunnison sage grouse.
In lean, lyrical prose, Claire Boyles evokes the bleakness and beauty of our threatened western landscapes. Spanning the decades from the 1970s to a plausible near future, this knockout debut introduces unforgettable characters who must confront the challenges of caregiving and loss alongside the very practical impacts of fracking, water rights law,…