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Pantheon
October 2008
On Sale: October 7, 2008
432 pages
ISBN: 0375420789
EAN: 9780375420788
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
In her most original, provocative, and eloquently moving
book since Refuge, Terry Tempest Williams gives us a
luminous chronicle of finding beauty in a broken world.
Always an impassioned and far-sighted advocate for a just
relationship between the natural world and humankind,
Williams has broadened her concerns over the past several
years to include a reconfiguration of family and community
in her search for a deeper understanding of what it means
to be human in an era of physical and spiritual
fragmentation. Williams begins in Ravenna, Italy, where “jeweled ceilings
became lavish tales” through the art of mosaic. She
discovers that mosaic is not just an art form but a form of
integration, and when she returns to the American
Southwest, her physical and spiritual home, and observes a
clan of prairie dogs on the brink of extinction, she
apprehends an ecological mosaic created by a remarkable
species in the sagebrush steppes of the Colorado Plateau.
And, finally, Williams travels to a small village in
Rwanda, where, along with fellow artists, she joins
survivors of the 1994 genocide and builds a memorial
literally from the rubble of war, an act that becomes a
spark for social change and healing. A singular meditation on how the natural and human worlds
both collide and connect in violence and beauty, this is a
work of uncommon perceptions that dares to find
intersections between arrogance and empathy, tumult and
peace, constructing a narrative of hopeful acts by taking
that which is broken and creating something whole.
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