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Book synopsis

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.

Book details

• Full title: Yellow Pine
• Subtitle: 'Watkins writes like an avenging angel' Jenny Offill
• Author: Claire Vaye Watkins
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• EAN: 9781529449730
• ID: 52254972
• Publisher: Quercus Publishing
• Weight: 444 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 153 mm
• Date of publishing: 21. July 2026

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