Save the date. I will give a talk and reading from my wilderness memoir Going Over the Mountain at the new location of Bank Square Books, 80 Stonington Road, Mystic, Connecticut, on Tuesday, October 15 at 6 p.m.
Going Over the Mountain: One Woman’s Journey from Follower to Solo Hiker and Back maps the evolution of a woman through backcountry adventures. It’s a story of evolution that reaches out from the wilds and into the hearts of all who seek to understand who they really are.
Blair Braverman, author and adventurer, calls Going Over the Mountain “a reflection on entering the woods as a follower, a solo traveler, a parent, and in community, for anyone who’s turned to the trail for comfort, or dreams of trying someday.”
Erica Berry, author of Wolfish, says this book “evocatively weaves vignettes from her intrepid decades on the trail.”
Climber and author Laura Waterman says, “This deeply insightful memoir is wise and funny, easy to pick up, and impossible to put down.”
And Elissa Ely, whose essays explore interactions in the mountains, had this to say about my book: “Whether she is writing about her love for an old cooking pot or for camping in a storm with her daughters, reading T.S. Eliot poetry on the Appalachian Trail or racing to climb each New England state’s highest mountain in 48 hours, her life among the mountains reinds us eloquently that life devoted to these places will save us.”
