Yellow Pine

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  • ISBN 9781529449723
  • Dimensions: 156 x 240mm
  • Publication Date: 21 Jul 2026
  • Publisher: Quercus Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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'The most captivating voice to come out of the West since Annie Proulx' Vogue
'Inimitable, irrepressible, wild and true' Joy Williams

A desert scorched feminist eco-novel, Yellow Pine is about a self-determined pioneer woman romping into her forties and recovering from her rugged individualism.


Rose is a divorced, disillusioned Sierra Club staffer residing in Tecopa, a tiny town in the Mojave Desert wilderness, near Death Valley. Living apart from her young daughter much of the time, she emerges from the pandemic-induced loneliness to rekindle a passionate romance with an old flame, Miles.

When their torturous on-again-off-again cycle hits 'off-again' Rose resolves to have a second baby without Miles. Enlisting her comrades from an encampment protesting Yellow Pine, a for-profit industrial solar array on formerly public land, Rose's unorthodox approach to conception becomes a search for community, rest, recovery, and communion with the divine in the face of mass extinction.

Yellow Pine is a meditation on disillusionment and re-enchantment, about sacrifice and chronic grief, the refuge of love, and defending the sacred.

Claire Vaye Watkins is the author of Battleborn, Gold Fame Citrus, and I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness. Her awards include the Story Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Silver Pen Award from the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A graduate of the University of Nevada Reno and the Ohio State University, Claire is a professor in the Programs in Writing at the University of California, Irvine. She lives in Orange County and the Mojave Desert.

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