Rock, Water, Wild: An Alaskan Life
“[Nancy Lord] brings an impressive awareness to this collection of essays . . . . The author patiently waits for the landscape and its many stories to reveal themselves to her. Lord is also politically adept and sensitive. . . . She closes with an ample display of her writing chops, allowing readers to take her measure as a well-rounded person—a baseball fan, the daughter of a father with Alzheimer’s, and a believer in the elusive ivory-billed woodpecker, confided in a lovely staccato piece as jumpy as the bird’s alleged sighting. A protective love story of a place of vast, otherworldly beauty.”—Kirkus Reviews