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Book SynopsisIn the style of Barry Lopez, Annie Dillard, and Eula Biss, Surrender explores the changing landscape of the American West and the radical environmental movements that have taken root in response to the increasingly urgent climate crisis.
Blending personal memoir with insightful reportage and vivid nature writing, award-winning author and essayist Joanna Pocock investigates the changing landscape of the West and the radical environmental movements that have taken root in the Mountain States. She witnesses the annual tribal bison hunt near Yellowstone National Park, where she meets a scavenger community honing ancestral skills. She joins Finisia Medrano, a transgender rewilder who for many years has been living on the hoop, following her food source by seasonal migration. She attends the Ecosex Convergence an annual gathering of people who place their relationship with the earth above everything else and attends a workshop led by Reverend Teri Ciacchi,
Trade Review
A bewitching and deeply affecting book. Pocock’s elegant interweaving of the intimate and the expansive, the personal and the universal, culminates in a work that forces us to consider our own place in, and impact upon, a world that could itself have more past than future. * Spectator *
[A] poignant, insightful examination of the American West. * Winnipeg Free Press *
