2019 National Endowment for the Arts Project Grantee
"Chera Hammons writes fiction with the same lyricism that makes her poetry shine. Every sentence sings with grace and music."
—RICHARD KRAWIEC
Anna and her husband John, a master saddlemaker, have created a quiet existence for themselves in rural Vermont. When John disappears in the woods near their home, Anna hides what she finds there in a desperate effort to ensure her own survival. She must learn to live alone in a landscape where poachers trespass, coyotes roam, bears menace livestock, and winter starves the wild animals—while debilitating illness and long-buried secrets threaten to upturn her life.