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Fiction. Deep in the mountains of British Columbia, across an unforgiving landscape, one man's pursuit of a fabled mountain lion leads him into the furthest reaches of himself. As he struggles to confront the wilderness surrounding him--from the baying hounds to the relentless northern snows--he journeys into his own haunted…
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The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing is a compelling parable about forgiveness while evoking both the dangers and the beauty of nature and faraway places.
The author, Joseph Fasano, is an acclaimed poet whose prose rings like poetry—stunning and poignant. Much of the story takes place in remote places, places I have always loved and longed for, and destinations where one can retreat from the world.
These places are sometimes called “thin places,” places writer Mark D. Roberts described as “where the boundary between heaven and earth is especially thin, a place where we can sense the divine more…
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