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Praise for Virga & Bone

“It’s like Childs was born out of pink sandstone, given a mouth to speak, and has continued to defend his mother ever since. You’ll read this book in one night but you’ll reflect on it for a lifetime.”

—ANNE HOLMAN, The King’s English Bookshop

“Love songs earned in a life lived close to the wild.”

—ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING, author of Zoologies: On Animals & the Human Spirit

“Craig Childs takes us not only through the external landscapes of the huge and wondrous; he takes us into and through himself.”

—MARY SOJOURNER, author of The Talker and 29

“A desert koan, Childs’ latest is still and restive, full of unresolved pairings and brilliantly so. His 1,000-watt prose is as alive as the heat that makes the Mojave tick.”

—ELIZABETH RUSH, author of

Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore

“A tribute to the orphaned landscape of the borderlands.”

—GREG CHILD, author of Over the Edge

“A bright hard gem of a book.”

—WILLIAM DEBUYS, author of A Great Aridness and The Last Unicorn

“Childs is a master of bringing the outside inward.”

—M. JOHN FAYHEE, ex-editor of the Mountain Gazette and author of Smoke Signals and Bottoms Up

“An arid, haunting feast.”

—REBECCA LAWTON, author of The Oasis This Time

“Adorned with fierce, aridly gorgeous insights.” —KEVIN FEDARKO, author of The Emerald Mile

“Childs shows us how to look in ways that we might find our own unique contribution to a future where all life thrives.”

—BROOKE WILLIAMS, author of Open Midnight