The prize-winning author of Fire Season returns with the heartrending story of his troubled years of flight.
Phillip Connors's Fire Season, an account of the decade he spent working in a fire-lookout tower high above the remotest part of New Mexico, won the Banff Mountain Book Grand Prize and the Reading the West Book Award, and Amazon named the Best Nature Book of the Year. Now Connors returns with the story of what drove him up the tower in the first place: the wilderness years he spent reeling in the wake of a family tragedy. This is an unforgettable account of grappling with a shattered sense of purpose, from his family's failing pig farm in Minnesota to a crack-addled Brooklyn neighborhood to the mountains of New Mexico, where he puts the pieces of his life back together.
Like Cheryl Strayed's Wild, this is a finely wrought look back at wayward youth-and a redemptive story about discovering one's place in the world.
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Philip Connors was born in Iowa and grew up on a farm in southwest Minnesota. After graduating from the University of Montana, he worked for several years at the Wall Street Journal, mostly as an editor on the Leisure & Arts page. In 2002 he left the paper for a seasonal job with the United States Forest Service in New Mexico. His first book, Fire Season: Field Notes From a Wilderness Lookout, was named the best nature book of the year by Amazon and won a National Outdoor Book Award, the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award, the Reading the West Award for Nonfiction, and the Grand Prize at the Banff Mountain Book Competition. He lives in southern New Mexico.
Adam Verner is a stage, film, television, and voice actor and an Earphones Award–winning audiobook narrator. He holds a BS in theater arts from Bradley University and an MFA from Chicago College of the Performing Arts at Roosevelt University.