Lost Person Behavior by Amber Caron Paperback Book 9781639550449

A magnetic debut collection of stories about the daily lives and labors of girls and women in rural AmericaIn Call Up the Waters the natural world is an escape hatch a refuge a site of work and an occasional antagonist In the title story a devastating drought leads a mother of two deep into the Colorado Rockies in search of water In quotThe Handlerquot a woman leaves her boyfriend for the New Hampshire woods and fiftyseven sled dogs A distress call from a boat in Massachusetts Bay compels a mother in amp8220Sea Womenamp8221 to plumb her daughters secrets A girl torn between truth and expectation shows her courage in a funereal performance in amp8220Barn Burningamp8221 And in amp8220Bending the Mapamp8221 a woman turns the tables on her obsessive wouldbe lover after a powerful storm ravages her canyon homeThe characters in these ten storiessearchandrescue workers dog trainers naturalists archaeologists and dowsersamp8212are each fundamentally shaped by the environment in which they live and work They seek meaning through labor connection through jobs But in that searching they often find themselves far from their destination Familiar landscapes suddenly feel strange Unfamiliar...