March Pre-Orders Benefit Title Track!
Pre-order Land Marks on Bookshop.org during the month of March and all proceeds will be donated to Title Track, a Michigan organization that supports clean water, racial equity, and youth empowerment.
“This outstanding novel is about our common fight for the natural places and systems we hold dear, but it is also about our society’s soul.” —Liz Kirkwood, Executive Director of FLOW (For Love of Water)
“If ever there were a necessary book for our times, Land Marks is it. You will close this book feeling washed with elation.”
—Katy Yocom, author of Three Ways to Disappear, winner of the Siskiyou Prize for Environmental Literature
“This compelling novel gets at the emotions that undergird activism—the love, the fear, the feeling that something somehow must be done. I recognized much that was familiar, and learned much that was new.”
—Bill McKibben, author of Radio Free Vermont
“Land Marks is an important and powerful novel, and deserves its place in a growing literature of ecological resistance.”
—Derrick Jensen, author of A Language Older Than Words and Endgame
“This polemical outing is both an elegy for ecosystems already lost and a call to action.”
—Publisher’s Weekly
Once you’ve experienced the devastation of fracking, nothing but stopping it makes sense.
In the river-crossed north woods of Michigan, Kate, Brett, Sonya, and Mark, mentored by their former professor Rebecca, keep watch as North American Energy (NorA) connects a corridor of frack well sites deep in the state forests. When NorA expands in unexpected directions and their bigger plan becomes clear, the action begins.
As grassroots activists prepare to stop NorA’s dangerous superfrac, stresses other than the fracturing of the bedrock appear: Sonya is arrested, Rebecca reveals her hidden past, and the one person who knows both women’s stories arrives in camp. But love and solidarity want to win—even if most showdowns with Big Oil don’t end well for those who take a stand.
Land Marks is a tribute to the waterways that connect us, the land that sustains us, and the moments that inspire us to rise up and say, “No more!”