Site Fidelity - Stories

Firmly rooted in the modern American West, Site Fidelity follows women and families who feel the instinctual, inexplicable pull of a home they must work to protect from the effects of economic inequity and climate catastrophe. A seventy-four-year-old nun turns to eco-sabotage to stop a fracking project. A woman delivers her own baby in a Nevada ghost town. A young farmer hides her chicken flock from the government during a bird flu epidemic. An ornithologist returns home to care for her rancher father and gets caught up trying to protect a breeding group of endangered Gunnison sage grouse.

In lean, lyrical prose, Claire Boyles evokes the bleakness and beauty of our threatened western landscapes. Spanning the decades from the 1970s to a plausible near future, this knockout debut introduces unforgettable characters who must confront the challenges of caregiving and loss alongside the very practical impacts of fracking, water rights law, and other agricultural policies. Site Fidelity is a vivid, intimate, and deeply human exploration of life on the shifting terrain of our changing planet.

About the author

Claire Boyles is a writer, teacher, and former sustainable farmer in northern Colorado. A 2022 Whiting Award winner, her debut story collection, Site Fidelity, won the High Plains International Book Award and was longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize.

Product details

• Authors: Claire Boyles
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780393531824
• ISBN: 978-0-393-53182-4
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 147 mm x 218 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 316 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; FICTION / Women, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Literary, Short Stories, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Fiction: literary and general non-genre