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Elyse is an empty-nest mother and artist in Alaska, and Astrid is a paleobotany professor in North Carolina. When the seemingly fulfilling lives of these distanced childhood friends are shaken, everything they've carefully established--from friends to careers to marriages--shifts, slips, unravels.
About the author
Marybeth Holleman was raised by North Carolina's Great Smoky Mountains and lives in the embrace of Alaska's Chugach Mountains. She's the author of
tender gravity: poems,
The Heart of the Sound and coauthor of
Among Wolves, and coeditor of
Crosscurrents North, among others. She's also coeditor of the forthcoming
A Poetic and Artistic Field Guide to Alaska. Her award-winning work appears in over fifty venues including
Orion,
Christian Science Monitor,
Sierra,
North American Review,
Zoomorphic, and
The Guardian. She has held artist residencies in such diverse places as Hedgebrook, Mesa Refuge, Ninfa, Denali National Park, and Tracy Arm Ford's Terror Wilderness. She transplanted to Alaska after falling head over heels for Prince William Sound just two years before the oil spill. When she's not kayaking those beloved fjords, she's following her wild huskies up and down Alaska's mountains.
