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Bonelight by Mary Sojourner





Bonelight: Ruin and Grace in the New Southwest
by Mary Sojourner
University of Nevada Press; March 2002

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The essays collected in Bonelight reflect Mary Sojourner's southwestern journey from greenhorn to old-timer, from tourist to committed defender of the land and the human communities that share it. She writes of exploring the deserts, forests, canyons, mountains, and river rapids of the Southwest, and of her love for this landscape; of family, friends, and lovers, a woman's passage into middle age, the discovery of peace and balance in the execution of mundane chores and in the close observation of natural surroundings; of the ways that development is in her mind destroying the Southwest's fragile beauty.

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Links for this book:
Publishers Weekly
High Country News

Also by this author:
Delicate: Stories of Light and Desire; Nevermore Press; April 2001

Sisters of the Dream;
Northland Publishing AZ; November 1989


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