Description
In 1983, as the Great Salt Lake rises and floods the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Terry Tempest Williams confronts a parallel crisis at home: the illness and death of her mother and grandmother. Blending lyrical nature writing with intimate family memoir, she traces the shifting landscapes of Utah’s salt marshes and the birds’ vanishing refuge alongside the body’s slow unraveling. Through this braided account, Williams explores how place can hold memory, how grief reshapes perception, and how environmental change and personal loss mirror one another in unsettling ways. Part elegy, part ecological inquiry, Refuge is a powerful testament to endurance—written in Williams’ distinctive, sensory, deeply observant style.
Available Editions
hardcover
Pantheon
Published May 2, 2000
320 pages
ISBN: 9780679405160
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Details
First Published
1991
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Refuge by Terry Tempest Williams.