A review by beatniksafari
Miracle Country by Kendra Atleework

4.0

This memoir addresses the complex history of the Eastern Sierra Nevada region, along with the story of Atleework's family, whose strong ties unraveled after the death of her free-spirited mother. In incandescent prose, Atleework acknowledges the deep pain that scars the natural and the human landscape: the droughts, the wildfires, the slaughter of indigenous people, the merciless drain on water reserves that provided sustenance and protection for the land and its residents.

Beneath every story she tells, Atleework finds another: no simple narrative of villains and heroes, but a layering of beauty, greed, loss, and healing.