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Natch
Paperback
Publisher Price: $18.00
ISBN13: 9781685970000
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: Apr 7 2025
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.43 Depth: 7.95
Language: English
The Center for Fiction 2025 First Novel Prize, Winner
At the age of twenty-nine, tired of trying to get along with members of his crew and tired of the money going into somebody else's pocket, Natch begins working for himself, climbing and cutting down trees in the foothills of north Georgia. He has his truck, ropes, climbing gear, and a rotating selection of secondhand saws he finds at pawn shops and flea markets. He is free to work as he pleases. And he believes he is fine with his life as it is, living alone in an old hunting cabin at the end of a dirt lane, enjoying his habits, exploring his vices, and living, as he puts it, like some wild thing let loose on the world.
When Asha discovers that she is expecting a child, the young couple struggles to convert the excitement of their early days together into a more steadfast companionship. Over the seasons of her pregnancy, Asha discovers that the freedom of their hardscrabble existence is overshadowed by the constant threat of misfortune and injury, and she finds herself timorous to bring a child into a setting where chainsaws are everywhere, where constant fires burn the bones of felled trees, a world of endless struggle in which finding more work means finding more danger.
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