Site Fidelity: Stories -- Claire Boyles, Hardcover

Firmly rooted in the modern American West, Site Fidelity 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, this knockout debut 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. Site Fidelity is a vivid, intimate, and deeply human exploration of life on the shifting terrain of our changing planet.

Author: Claire Boyles
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 06/15/2021
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780393531824

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/12/2021
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2021
Booklist 05/01/2021 pg. 20