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Lioness: A Novel
West Virginia University Press, 2022 eISBN: 978-1-952271-45-8 | Paper: 978-1-952271-44-1 Library of Congress Classification PS3616.O88L56 2022 Dewey Decimal Classification 892.8
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
“Emotionally wrenching. . . . Haunting (and haunted) in the best possible way.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) In the fall of 2018, a bomb goes off at a water-bottling plant in the mountains of southwest Virginia, an incident the FBI declares an act of ecoterrorism. Arrested at the scene is Chris Bright, a mountain hermit with a long history of activism. Unaccounted for—and presumed dead—is Mara Wood, an installation artist who in the last two years has lost her son and left her husband. But Mara’s estranged husband David cannot quite believe she is dead, and as he goes about reconstructing the story of what happened, he begins to imagine an alternate narrative—one in which their son doesn’t die and his wife doesn’t leave him, one in which his wife doesn’t carry on a secret relationship with Chris Bright, a man bent on fighting back against the environmental despoliation of his Appalachian home. Lioness is a page-turning, heart-wrenching examination of extremism: What pushes people to act violently, and is that violence ever justified? See other books on: Literary | Nature & the Environment | Novel | Powell, Mark | Small Town & Rural See other titles from West Virginia University Press |
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Lioness: A Novel
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
West Virginia University Press, 2022
eISBN: 978-1-952271-45-8
Paper: 978-1-952271-44-1
eISBN: 978-1-952271-45-8
Paper: 978-1-952271-44-1
“Emotionally wrenching. . . . Haunting (and haunted) in the best possible way.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Darkly compelling.” —Tom Perrotta
In the fall of 2018, a bomb goes off at a water-bottling plant in the mountains of southwest Virginia, an incident the FBI declares an act of ecoterrorism. Arrested at the scene is Chris Bright, a mountain hermit with a long history of activism. Unaccounted for—and presumed dead—is Mara Wood, an installation artist who in the last two years has lost her son and left her husband.
But Mara’s estranged husband David cannot quite believe she is dead, and as he goes about reconstructing the story of what happened, he begins to imagine an alternate narrative—one in which their son doesn’t die and his wife doesn’t leave him, one in which his wife doesn’t carry on a secret relationship with Chris Bright, a man bent on fighting back against the environmental despoliation of his Appalachian home. Lioness is a page-turning, heart-wrenching examination of extremism: What pushes people to act violently, and is that violence ever justified?
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
