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Emotionally wrenching. . . . Haunting (and haunted) in the best possible way. Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Darkly compelling. Tom Perrotta
In the fall of 2018, a bomb goes off at a water-bottling plant in the mountains of southwest Virginia, an incident the FBI declares an act of ecoterrorism. Arrested at the scene is Chris Bright, a mountain hermit with a long history of activism. Unaccounted forand presumed deadis Mara Wood, an installation artist who in the last two years has lost her son and left her husband.
But Maras estranged husband David cannot quite believe she is dead, and as he goes about reconstructing the story of what happened, he begins to imagine an alternate narrativeone in which their son doesnt die and his wife doesnt leave him, one in which his wife doesnt carry on a secret relationship with Chris Bright, a man bent on fighting back against the environmental despoliation of his Appalachian home. Lioness is a page-turning, heart-wrenching examination of extremism: What pushes people to act violently, and is that violence ever justified?
Author: Mark Powell
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: West Virginia University Press
Published: 04/01/2022
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.8lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781952271441
Language: English
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