cover image Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

Terry Tempest Williams. Vintage Books USA, $15 (336pp) ISBN 978-0-679-74024-7

Utah naturalist Williams ponders the loss of her mother to cancer and the disastrous flooding of a bird refuge in a moving account of the interrelations between personal tragedy and natural history. Author tour. (Sept.)