Karen Auvinen flees to a primitive cabin in the Rockies to live in solitude as a writer and to embrace all the beauty and brutality nature has to offer
in the early weeks of his bereavement
"An exquisitely wrought and utterly absorbing meditation upon life
She has no interest in becoming a lady
"A deeply touching story about survival
Mother, Nature: A 5,000-Mile Journey to Discover if a Mother and Son Can Survive Their Differences TC_Bestseller Karen Auvinen flees to aNATIONAL BESTSELLER From the author of To Shake the Sleeping Self . . . Exquisitely written and completely compelling . . . As Jedidiah Jenkins traces a 5,000 mile route with his wildly entertaining mother, Barb, he begins to untangle the live wires of a parent child bond and to wrestle with a love that hurts.Suleika Jaouad, author of Between Two Kingdoms LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST When his mother, Barbara, turns seventy, Jedidiah Jenkins is