The Living Mountain Scotland - 20th Century a moving and genre-bending story

a moving and genre-bending story about our era-spanning search for meaning and knowing

of black men and women

and power -- an Appalachian period piece that explores reproductive justice and bodily autonomy

he is not merely plotting his revenge against the suitors - vengeance that will spark a civil war - but he's testing the loyalty of his queen

a woman who - at twenty-seven - is no longer young and has few romantic prospects

The Living Mountain Scotland - 20th Century a moving and genre-bending story"In a world of self help, this is true inspiration, deeply admirable without the distance of heroism, bracing without stridency and, ultimately, generous. The mountain, Shepherd tells us, is 'a corrective of glib assessment.' So is its book." The New York Times Book Review An internationally bestselling classic on the power of the natural world "part memoir, part field notebook, part lyrical meditation on nature and our relationship with it, evocative