{"product_id":"air-mail-letters-of-politics-pandemics-and-place-9781948814386","title":"Air Mail: Letters of Politics, Pandemics, and Place","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Pam Houston and Amy Irvine bring rivers and mountains and valleys onto the page and into your heart, reminding you how you are still part of a body that matters... This book is fierce love in motion.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--LIDIA YUKNAVITCH\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen the state of Colorado ordered its residents to shelter in place in response to the spread of coronavirus, writers Pam Houston and Amy Irvine--who had never met--began a correspondence based on their shared devotion to the rugged, windswept mountains that surround their homes, one on either side of the Continental Divide. As the numbers of infected and dead rose and the nation split dangerously over the crisis, Houston and Irvine found their letters to one another as necessary as breath. Part tribute to wilderness, part indictment against tyranny and greed, Air Mail: Letters of Politics, Pandemics, and Place reveals the evolution of a friendship that galvanizes as it chronicles a strange new world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePAM HOUSTON\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the memoir, \u003ci\u003eDeep Creek: Finding Hope In The High Country\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as two novels, \u003ci\u003eContents May Have Shifted\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSight Hound\u003c\/i\u003e, two collections of short stories, \u003ci\u003eCowboys Are My Weakness\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWaltzing the Cat\u003c\/i\u003e, and a collection of essays, \u003ci\u003eA Little More About Me\u003c\/i\u003e. She teaches in the Low Rez MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts, is Professor of English at UC Davis, and cofounder and creative director of the literary nonprofit Writing By Writers. She lives at nine thousand feet above sea level near the headwaters of the Rio Grande. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eAMY IRVINE\u003c\/b\u003e is a sixth-generation Utahn and longtime public lands activist. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eDesert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness\u003c\/i\u003e, a response to Edward Abbey's \u003ci\u003eDesert Solitaire\u003c\/i\u003e. Her memoir, \u003ci\u003eTrespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land\u003c\/i\u003e, received the Orion Book Award, the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award, and the Colorado Book Award. Irvine teaches in the MFA program of Southern New Hampshire University. She lives and writes in southwest Colorado, just spitting distance from her Utah homeland.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Torrey House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50525445390610,"sku":"9781948814386","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b1158448-abbc-4f6b-8aaa-5510cff4014d.jpg?v=1731219462","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/air-mail-letters-of-politics-pandemics-and-place-9781948814386","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}