Yellow Pine - 'Watkins writes like an avenging angel' Jenny Offill

A desert scorched feminist eco-novel, Yellow Pine is about a self-determined pioneer woman romping into her forties and recovering from her rugged individualism. Rose is a divorced, disillusioned Sierra Club staffer residing in Tecopa, a tiny town in the Mojave Desert wilderness, near Death Valley. Living apart from her young daughter much of the time, she emerges from the pandemic-induced loneliness to rekindle a passionate romance with an old flame, Miles. When their torturous on-again-off-again cycle hits ''off-again'' Rose resolves to have a second baby without Miles. Enlisting her comrades from an encampment protesting Yellow Pine, a for-profit industrial solar array on formerly public land, Rose''s unorthodox approach to conception becomes a search for community, rest, recovery, and communion with the divine in the face of mass extinction. Yellow Pine is a meditation on disillusionment and re-enchantment, about sacrifice and chronic grief, the refuge of love, and defending the sacred.

Product details

• Authors: Claire Vaye Watkins
• Publisher: Riverrun
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 21.07.2026
• EAN: 9781529449730
• ISBN: 978-1-5294-4973-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: FICTION / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Fiction: narrative themes, Fiction-Related Items