Willa Robbins is a master tracker working
to reintroduce the Mexican wolf, North America’s most endangered mammal,
to the American Southwest. But when Colorado police recruit her to
find her own brother, Zeb, a confessed murderer, she knows skill alone
will not sustain her. Willa is thrown back into the past, surfacing
memories of a childhood full of intense love, desperate mistakes, and
gentle remorse.
Trekking through exquisite New Mexico and Colorado landscapes, with Zeb two steps ahead and the police two steps behind, Willa must wrangle her desire to reunite with her brother and her own guilt about their violent past.
In this remarkable debut, Loren’s lyrical prose gives voice to the wildlife and land surrounding these beautifully flawed characters, breathing life into the southwestern terrain. Within this treacherous and mesmerizing landscape, Theft illustrates the struggle to piece together the fragile traces of what has been left behind, allowing for new choices to take shape. This is a story about family, about loss, and about a search for answers.
Here are some pictures from BK's very first time reading her novel to an audience (she did great).
Jackie says:
Trekking through exquisite New Mexico and Colorado landscapes, with Zeb two steps ahead and the police two steps behind, Willa must wrangle her desire to reunite with her brother and her own guilt about their violent past.
In this remarkable debut, Loren’s lyrical prose gives voice to the wildlife and land surrounding these beautifully flawed characters, breathing life into the southwestern terrain. Within this treacherous and mesmerizing landscape, Theft illustrates the struggle to piece together the fragile traces of what has been left behind, allowing for new choices to take shape. This is a story about family, about loss, and about a search for answers.
Here are some pictures from BK's very first time reading her novel to an audience (she did great).
Jackie says:
"This is an intense novel about what the past made us, and how we go
about making our own futures. It's the story a family--a distant
father, an ailing mother, a teenage boy with a dark side, and a young
girl trying to keep everything together. We move with them through time
and events, and learn that the Colorado setting is as much of a
character as any of the human players. A dramatic climax comes to the
family, and we jump forward 15 or so years to the brother and sister,
grown up and away, making up new lives for themselves. But the past
isn't finished with them yet, and one must literally track the other in
order to at last put the past to rest. Running along side the first
family narrative is another family's drama, one of a father who made
some bad mistakes but who now risks his life to correct them, fighting
to keep a beautiful and nearly extinct animal, Mexican wolves, alive and
in their rightful place on the earth. These two stories weave together
into a nuanced cultural drama, written with a western backdrop of
howling coyotes, smuggled wolves and silently watching mountain lions,
poignant and memorable and the kind of book that, especially toward the
end, you slow down reading because every word must be savored. This is a
truly remarkable debut novel."
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