Mary Jane Wild - by Brooke Williams (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>Brooke Williams walked twice into Southern Utah's Mary Jane Wilderness: at the beginning of the Trump presidency, perhaps the most tumultuous and destructive in American History, and four-years later at its end.</strong> In <em>Mary Jane</em> <em>Wild </em>Brooke wanders into this magical place looking for answers to the question, "What has happened to America?". We watch as his imagination, unencumbered by distraction, alters his perceptions of this landscape, rendering modern maps obsolete. We are reminded of how walking in wilderness heals and helps us adapt to a world of uncertainty, and how evolution is ongoing, and wildness is the force behind it. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Brooke Williams' prose is magnificent ― lyrical, evocative and encompassing. Readers will see clearly the wild beauty of southern Utah and be reminded of the spiritual nourishment that only comes through nature. 'Open Midnight' is an expanding experience, one that will change forever how readers see life, death and those who have gone before us." ―Desert News<br><br>"If Williams has one familiar narrative in his life that shines through in this book, it is his love of wild places." ―Durango Telegraph<br><br>"Williams has given great and long thought into the state of humans in and out of touch with wild nature. It's easy to believe by reading 'Open Midnight' that wilderness is vital to our continued survival. For the receptive reader, Williams' volume will generate much food for thought and instill a desire to head for the hills. Or desert, river, bluff or anywhere where solitude and nature can work their magic and give relief from our fast-paced daily lives." ― Durango Herald<br><br>Brooke Williams journeys, both literally and figuratively, to understand his own demons in a country haunted by politics and pandemic. Pondering dreams, hermitry, patriarchy, and sacred nature, Williams delivers a lovely and ardent book. -<b>Betsy Gaines Quammen, author of American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God and Public Lands in the West</b><br><br>Brooke Williams weaves together personal and collective history to show how the outer, physical wilderness grants access to one's own inner wilderness.― Moab Times-Independent--Moab Times-Independent<br><br>I have lived with this man for 46 years and this book surprised me, a reminder of the secret lives we inhabit and where they can lead us. <b>-Terry Tempest Williams</b><br><br>Of all the reactions to the ugly shock of Trump's election in 2016, Brooke Williams; may be the best: his walk into the ancient order of the desert wild, and into the modern craziness of the American mind, is at turns hilarious, wrenching, and full of the kind of intense engagement that we need in order to endure (and even surmount) our present trials. <b>-Bill McKibben, author of</b> <b>The End of Nature</b><br><br>Walking through a wilderness with the demons of the civilized world for companions, I couldn't help thinking, what could go wrong? Gratefully, I feel like I lost some weight, and I can see better. -<b>Bill Porter/Red Pine</b><br><br>We go out to go inward, go to the wild to find our own wildness, and so Brooke Williams did when Trump was elected, to both escape and confront his demons and ours, his dreams and our possibilities. This is a book that invites the reader to wander with the author, through cloudy thoughts and solid red sandstone landscapes, to meet pack rats, ravens, hermits, bears ears, analyze the difference between stoke and awe, ponder the evolution of the species, masculinity toxic and otherwise, weave in and out of the dreamtime and the political scene. T.S. Eliot famously said, And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time, and this book of venturing forth and coming home is all about that. <b>-Rebecca Solnit</b><br>
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