num_pages: 211
description: A compilation of short fiction includes the title story about a woman's recovery from cancer, as well as "Pagans," a retrospective about the dangerous games played by a girl and two boys in their youth, and "Her First Elk," in which a woman recalls her first elk hunt.
language: English
title: The Lives of Rocks
titlecomplete: The Lives of Rocks
genres: Environment, Short Stories, American, Nature, Fiction
ratings_count: 518
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt