Falling Into Place: An Intimate Geography of Home

“Hypnotically poetic.” –O, The Oprah Magazine

“Sharply observed and deeply pondered.” –Kirkus Reviews “This book will be savored by those who relish reading beautifully written essays about natural history and environmental concerns, as well as by readers who enjoy memoirs.” –Library Journal

“Brings a fresh voice to time-honored subjects: the death of a loved one, the search for oneself.” –Massachusetts Review

“Under the spell of this book, I felt as if I were entering into a truly wild world.” –Jeff Wasserboehr, The Massachusetts Review

“Falling into Place shows a successful quest for elusive, hard-won goals, on natural territory.” –The Gay & Lesbian Review

“The perfect example of how the personal becomes global through familiar tropes.” –Lambda Literary

“Reid manages to skillfully connect with the art of physically and primally knowing a landscape, as an animal might… . This collection is a stunning representation of the multiplicity of place, and our station within it.” –July Westhale, Lambda Literary

“Listening for birds or following the riddle of a bear roaming the woods in winter; remembering a near drowning and the trace of her stranger-savior in spare asides; pursuing the nature of the ‘natural’ or calling us to meet her in wonder and in activism, author-naturalist Catherine Reid writes with an uncommonly enthralling acuity and grace. A major contribution to the re-vitalization of the essay and lyric nonfiction short form, Falling into Place creates groves of contemplation in a reactive world. Gerard Manley Hopkins. Rachel Carson. Catherine Reid. Like the precursors whose soundings gorgeously echo in her work, Falling into Place invites a new kind of listening.” –Mary Cappello, author of Called Back, and Swallow

“In these beautifully written essays Catherine Reid combines her homing instincts with an astute awareness of the ramifications of global events. As she explores the way in which the local, in our time, must also be far-ranging, she also considers the inextricable links between the human and natural worlds. Falling Into Place is a deeply rewarding book marked by maturity of thought and lyric richness.” –Jane Brox, author of Clearing Land: Legacies of the American Farm

Catherine Reid directs the undergraduate creative writing program at Warren Wilson College, where she teaches courses in creative nonfiction and environmental writing. She is the author of Coyote- Seeking the Hunter in Our Midst and of essays that have appeared in such journals as the Georgia Review, Fourth Genre, Bellevue Literary Review, and Massachusetts Review. She lives in Asheville, North Carolina.

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