Rough Beauty

In the bestselling tradition of Cheryl Strayed’s Wild and Helen MacDonald’s H Is for Hawk , Karen Auvinen, an award-winning poet, ventures into the wilderness to seek answers to life’s big questions with “candor [and] admirable courage” ( Christian Science Monitor ). Determined to live an independent life on her own terms, Karen Auvinen flees to a primitive cabin in the Rockies to live in solitude as a writer and to embrace all the beauty and brutality nature has to offer. When a fire incinerate