Montana

The fourteen personal essays in this book center on places the author has lived, worked, and walked, and they express the many dimensions we find in living places: the appreciation, wonder, paradox, and problems that arise from them—their essence, fullness, history, and future. At the same time this work illuminates Condon's conviction that relationships with the natural world have somehow redeemed him and made his life possible and rich.“Phil Condon is a quietly lyrical writer, whose truths well up from these pages as if from a still pool, surprising you with their depth.” —Robert Finch, author of "Death of a Hornet"

"There is an enlightened melancholy to his prose, reminding me of a full moon breaking through on a very cloudy night."—Terry Tempest Williams, author of "The Open Space of Democracy" and "Red"