num_pages: 380
description: In a debut novel from Green Writers Press by Jonathan Howland the austere beauty and high exposure of mountain adventure provide the context and the measure for what it means to be alive for climbing partners Joe Holland and Pete Hunteruntil one of them isnt. When the book opens its the mid-80s. Joe Holland the novels narrator is a climber and a seeker but mostly hes Pete Hunters shadow. The two meet in college and spend the next ten years living at the base of any rock that appears scalable most of them near Yosemite and Californias High Sierra. The joys and strains of their friendship comprise the novels first half. In the second the bare bonesobsession grief love and repaircome into stark relief when Petes grown son Will calls Joe back into climbing into the past and into breathless vitality. 
language: None
title: Native Air
publisher: Green Writers Press