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© 2022 Elise Atchison
novel Sowilo
Press
Artists Field Guide to Greater
Yellowstone anthology Unearthing Paradise:
Montana Writers in Defense of Paradise anthology An Elk River
Books Reader: Livingston and Billings Area Writers anthology Bangtail Press
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Elise
Atchison Winner of
the Eludia Book Award and the
Barbara Deming Award Sowilo
Press, 2022 WATCH Crazy
Mountain Book Trailer created by Craig Lancaster. PRAISE for “ – Debra Magpie Earling,
author of Perma Red and The Lost
Journals of Sacajewea “ – Doug Peacock, author of Grizzly Years and
Was It Worth It, filmmaker, Disabled Veteran “I absolutely love this kind of storytelling. Reminiscent
of – Laura Pritchett, winner of PEN “In the Mountain West, the landscape is a constant. It’s
the people who change. Ranchers, realtors, carpenters, painters,
archeologists, bad-ass baristas … in this artful, lyrical, deeply moving
novel, Elise Atchison follows a piece of landscape through several lifetimes,
capturing the dramatic complexity of the disrupted West through a full cast
of characters, one lens after another. It’s a full time job, trying to make
sense of the West these days. I find that this extraordinary book helps make
that job a little easier.” – Allen Morris Jones, author of A Bloom of
Bones and Sweeney on the Rocks “In Crazy Mountain the lives of those who
people landscapes of beauty and despair are multilayered, evocative, and rich
with unforeseen mystery. Elise Atchison's prose is a vessel of precision and
depth, unafraid to draw the reader into the more shadowed crucibles of life
and help us emerge with light in our hands. In stories that cover nearly five
decades in the life of a mountain and its residents, there is the wildness of
the human heart shaped by the wildness that surrounds us. May you take this
book home, cherish it as I did, and find in it the treasure it gives without
measure . . . that of ‘the wildland that has been
lost, and all that remains.’” – Shann Ray,
author of American Copper and Sweetclover “With great insight, intelligence, and intimacy, Elise Atchison
explores a singular dilemma: How do we live in paradise without destroying
the very thing we love? Set in a place changing so rapidly that its
inhabitants no longer recognize the landscape, one another, or even
themselves, these individual narratives of love and loss, celebration and
lament, interweave as the dreams of one generation give way to the
disillusionment of the next. A story of human intrusion and intervention, in
which moments of brutality give way to gestures of charity, “I am blown away by – Andrea Peacock, author of BOOK REVIEWS &
INTERVIEWS From Big Sky
Journal book review of Crazy
Mountain by Marc Beaudin: “Who owns the land? ... This question is often debated in
the More book reviews & interviews
forthcoming.
Elk
River Books, Fact and
Fiction, Country Bookshelf, This House of Books, Wheatgrass, Livingston or order from
your favorite bookstore. NEWS: June, 2022: Elise Atchison
received a Montana Arts Council Artist Grant for the completion of her
second novel. EVENTS: Friday, Sept. 2, 2022: Crazy Mountain Reading and Signing at
Fact and Fiction, 220
N. Higgins Ave., Missoula, Montana, 7:00 p.m. Monday, August 8, 2022: Thursday, June 23, 2022:
Book Release Party for Wednesday, April 27,
2022: Yellowstone
Perspectives Online Event: Artists
Field Guide to Yellowstone: A
Natural History by Greater Yellowstone’s Artists and Writers, a
discussion with Katie Christiansen, Karen Reinhart, Elise Atchison, Todd
Burritt, Jenni Lowe-Anker, DG House, and Diane Chalfant.
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