Christian missionaries attempt to outlaw the female circumcision ritual and in the process create a terrible rift between the two Kikuyu communities on either side of the river. Goodreads Reviews Back to Goodreads
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Adventures of the Sizzling Six: Monarch Mysteries, Claire Datnow
Thanks to Claire Datnow for writing to tell us about her YA series, The Adventures of the Sizzling Six: Monarch Mysteries. There are now eight volumes out in this series. Media Mint Publishing describes the series: In Monarch Mysteries, the cast of plucky teenage girls pit themselves against foolish neighbors […]
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Interview with Kris and Ashley, Hikers and Photographers
Part VI. Women Working in Nature and the Arts This week we have a discussion with Kris Anderegg and one of her best friends, Ashley O’Hara Skalsky. These two girls go back to age 11 when they met in southern California. I still remember that day! I decided to interview both […]
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Deep River Burning, Donelle Dreese
Denver Oakley’s home town of Adena, Pennsylvania has become a world on fire. The abandoned coal mines underneath the town are a blazing inferno, the escaping smoke and gases killing vegetation and making residents sick. Denver, who recently lost her parents, feels adrift and alone. She sells the family home, […]
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Interview with Katie Welch, Author of The Bears
Part V. Women Working in Nature and the Arts Note: The novel The Bears was republished as Ursocrypha: The Book of Bear in 2017. Mary: Katie, thanks so much for agreeing to an interview with Eco-fiction.com. Your book The Bears tackles a subject very close to my heart: What would […]
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Interview with Kate Oliver, from Birch & Pine
Part IV. Women Working in Nature and the Arts Mary: Meet Kate Oliver, artist and photographer. She’s also my niece, and I’ve been so inspired by her art and lifestyle, I’m going to introduce her to our readers as part of recognizing women artists who work with nature. I’m going […]
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Find Me, Laura van den Berg
Set in a near-future U.S. blighted by disastrous climate change and a baffling, incurable new disease, the book is narrated by Joy, a young woman abandoned as an infant by her mother. Joy spends her first 18 years in a series of grim group and foster homes around Boston. It’s […]
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Holy Cow, David Duchovny
Elsie Bovary is a cow, and a pretty happy one at that—her long, lazy days are spent eating, napping, and chatting with her best friend, Mallory. One night, Elsie and Mallory sneak out of their pasture; but while Mallory is interested in flirting with the neighboring bulls, Elsie finds herself […]
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The Mountain Story, Lori Lansens
Coming April 14, 2015: Five days. Four hikers. Three survivors. From Lori Lansens, author of the national bestsellers Rush Home Road, The Girls and The Wife’s Tale comes a gripping tale of adventure, sacrifice and survival in the unforgiving wilderness of a legendary mountain. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
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Clade, James Bradley
From the Sydney Morning Herald: A global deadly virus, the collapse of bee colonies, extreme weather events causing social unrest, eco-refugees, infertility, autism and new advances in technology – these are just some of the themes of James Bradley’s new novel, Clade. Its ambitious span stretches from some time in […]
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The Waterkeeper’s Daughter, Joan Mauch
Twenty-one year old Annie Whitaker is over the moon: She and Nate, her college sweetheart, have just gotten engaged and she’s driving home to give her parents the news. Not only that, but she’s spending the summer as an intern with her dad, Lake Okeechobee’s waterkeeper. Life just doesn’t get […]
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Every Blade of Grass, Thomas Wharton
Before email, Facebook, and Twitter, people wrote letters. Thomas Wharton’s new novel tells the story of James Wheeler and Martha Geddes, who meet at an environmental conference in Iceland and feel a mutual attraction. The catch is that they live on opposite sides of a continent and one of them […]
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Interview with Virginia Arthur, Author of Birdbrain
Part III. Women Working in Nature and the Arts Mary of Eco-fiction interviews Virginia Arthur, teacher, field biologist, and author of the novel Birdbrain. About Birdbrain: The book is rich. It is an ecological journey, but also woven through it is Ellowyn’s deep emotional experience of being a human being […]
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Painted Horses, Malcolm Brooks
In the mid-1950s, America was flush with prosperity and saw an unbroken line of progress clear to the horizon, while the West was still very much wild. In this ambitious, incandescent debut, Malcolm Brooks animates that time and untamed landscape, in a tale of the modern and the ancient, of […]
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Interview with JL Morin, Nature’s Confession
Women Working in Nature and the Arts Mary of Eco-fiction talks with Boston University adjunct professor and award-winning novelist J.L. Morin. Also see our review of J.L.’s novel at Fjords Review. Update: this book launched on January 9. Mary: Your imagination is brilliant, and Nature’s Confession is chock full of […]
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