
This extraordinary and utterly moving memoir captures one family's spirit--and their losses--in a harsh landscape that has been shaped and exploited over hundreds of years. Miracle Country chronicles Atleework's journey as she realizes that there's nowhere else in America,...

WINNER OF THE SIGURD F. OLSON NATURE WRITING AWARD "Blending family memoir and environmental history, Kendra Atleework conveys a fundamental truth: the places in which we live, live on--sometimes painfully--in us. This is a powerful, beautiful, and urgently important...

Kendra Atleework grew up in Swall Meadows, in the Owens Valley of the Eastern Sierra Nevada, where annual rainfall averages five inches and in drought years measures closer to zero. Kendra's family raised their children to thrive in this harsh landscape, forever at the mercy...