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1 online resource (1 audio file (420 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
Cast |
Read by Devon Sorvari, Eva Wilhelm, Pete Cross, Jesse Vilinsky. |
Summary |
Firmly rooted in the modern American West, this story collection 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, Site Fidelity 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. It is a vivid, intimate, and deeply human exploration of life on the shifting terrain of our changing planet. |
System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
Subject |
Women -- West (U.S.) -- Fiction.
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Families -- West (U.S.) -- Fiction.
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Added Author |
Sorvari, Devon.
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Wilhelm, Eva.
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Cross, Pete.
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Vilinsky, Jesse.
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hoopla digital.
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ISBN |
9781666500295 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1666500291 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
Music No. |
MWT14292725 |
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