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The Weight of a Frozen Moment
Hardcover
Publisher Price: $26.00
ISBN13: 9781639552269
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: Apr 6 2027
Pages: 264
Language: English
From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Forrest Gander comes a poignant exploration of intimate human and ecological bonds.
In a small intentional community in California's Sierra Nevada mountains, two sisters--Maya and Mira--grow up sharing explorations, secrets, and the sense that their lives are unfolding in parallel. But as adolescence pulls Mira away, first subtly and then irrevocably, Maya must remake herself alone: through grief and family tragedy, through a journey to Karnataka to honor the anniversary of their father's death, and through an ever-deepening bond with the place that helped shape her.
Strikingly lyrical and quietly devastating, Forrest Gander's poetic restraint and his detailed attention to the natural world imbues the landscape with a gravitational pull on the narrative. The Sierra Nevada are witness, anchor, and the ground on which the sisters find their way back to each other and to an even more expansive sense of belonging.
A meditation on place, identity, and the strength of the ties that endure, The Weight of a Frozen Moment offers an unexpected grace in demonstrating what it means to be separate and inseparable.
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