and "Lush and evocative...A highly satisfying, delicately woven story about loss, loneliness, life, and death. and " - KIRKUS REVIEWSAnna 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.CHERA HAMMONS holds an MFA from Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont, and serves as writer-in-residence at West Texas A and u0026M University. The author of four books of poetry, including Maps of Injury and the 2017 Southwest Book Award winner The Traveler's Guide to Bomb City , she lives near Amarillo, Texas, with her husband, three cats, a dog, a rabbit, a donkey, and five horses.