2019 Grand Canyon Reader Award Nominee
and wonderful birdlife--except during the Northern Hemisphere summer
Ralph Moody was eight years old in 1906 when his family moved from New Hampshire to a Colorado ranch
focusing on foraging and growing dying materials
"--Evelyn Beck "Library Journal (starred review)"
Land: A Novel by Maggie O'Farrell stickleback 2019 Grand Canyon Reader AwardThe award winning, bestselling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait, returns with a soaring historical novel set in Ireland in the years before and after the Great Hunger. "A breathtaking hymn to the sanctity of natural spaces, operating on timescales both intimate and geological. I finished Land moved not only by the vivid lives of its human characters, but the thrumming, gorgeous presence of its mosses, waters, winds, and skies." Daniel Mason,