Fiction feeds on a writer’s utopias and hellholes. Mine are in California’s mountainous north, where I hope to cross paths.
A back-to-the-land bohemian and her eco-activist friends clash with locals during a 1976 timber war in Northern California.
Some Greater Awakening
About Jessica
On Wintu land, under drifting smoke from a lumber mill incinerator down the street, my folks raised me to appreciate trees, birds, mountains, and rivers. I covered Earth First! as a student journalist. As a filmmaker, I documented threats to sacred lands around the world.
What a rare pleasure it is to write about my own home ground, with its ravaged beauty and heart-rending history. Here and everywhere, generous people hold the line against ecological indifference. They are my inspiration for this novel.
“A love letter to the 1970s.”
—Chris Walker, cover artist
“A page-turner and a joy, Jessica Abbe’s wise, committed comic novel about 1970s activism and the environment takes on new relevance with the recent, brutal California fires.”
—Diane Johnson, author, screenwriter, and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award
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