RaveColorado ReviewClaire Boyles’s collection of short stories, Site Fidelity, seamlessly fuses the lives and struggles of ordinary people in the American West with the wider challenges of living in a natural environment stressed by climate and economic changes ... Boyles has written stories of surprising range, while maintaining a focus on how human beings—particularly men—are imperiling our planet through careless exploitation and short-term economic goals. She also deftly marshals a number of themes we traditionally find in literature about the American West ... despite a gripping sense of a world out of joint, Boyles never completely gives up hope that we can work to heal both our human and natural world, and offers hints of reconciliations and resolutions that leave the reader both thoughtful and challenged.
Elizabeth Rush
RaveThe Colorado Review... marshals scientific, intellectual, literary, and journalistic resources to document how climate change has impacted our world on multiple levels. [Rush\'s] book is a very honest appraisal of both the changes we have wrought and the challenges that we and our children must face ... examin[es] climate change with nimble and expressive prose ... Rush inserts herself bravely and honestly into her narrative...she is not afraid or hesitant to make human connections with the subjects of her writing ... The great benefit of Rush’s work is in bringing climate change to our back door ... Her narrative argument is clear but powerful: climate change is omnipresent, unavoidable, and right here ... Rush’s journey of discovery has taken an emotional toll on her, and her book bears the scars of her quest, which makes her writing more intimate, more direct, and ultimately more impactful.
