{"product_id":"9781529449730","title":"Yellow Pine","description":"Author: Claire Vaye Watkins\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781529449730\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Quercus Books\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 21 Jul 2026\u003cbr\u003ePages: 256 Format: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The most captivating voice to come out of the West since Annie Proulx' Vogue\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Inimitable, irrepressible, wild and true' Joy Williams\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA desert scorched feminist eco-novel, \u003ci\u003eYellow Pine\u003c\/i\u003e is about a self-determined pioneer woman romping into her forties and recovering from her rugged individualism.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRose is a divorced, disillusioned Sierra Club staffer residing in Tecopa, a tiny town in the Mojave Desert wilderness, near Death Valley. Living apart from her young daughter much of the time, she emerges from the pandemic-induced loneliness to rekindle a passionate romance with an old flame, Miles.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen their torturous on-again-off-again cycle hits 'off-again' Rose resolves to have a second baby without Miles. Enlisting her comrades from an encampment protesting Yellow Pine, a for-profit industrial solar array on formerly public land, Rose's unorthodox approach to conception becomes a search for community, rest, recovery, and communion with the divine in the face of mass extinction.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eYellow Pine\u003c\/i\u003e is a meditation on disillusionment and re-enchantment, about sacrifice and chronic grief, the refuge of love, and defending the sacred.\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67954154111134,"sku":"ADS-9781529449730","price":34.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781529449730.jpg?v=1794048882","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781529449730","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}