RaveBook ForumThe eight stories in Lydia Peelle’s debut collection are remarkable for their clarity and precision. Set primarily in the dwindling forests and farmland surrounding Nashville, Tennessee, they concern the estrangement between modern life and nature, unsettling the reader’s hope for an easy reconciliation between the two ... The [opening] story’s ending shows little indulgence for nostalgia and even less for caprice, a pattern that recurs in Peelle’s collection.
