Heather Durham presents 'Sylvan Crone: A Midlife Quest'

Third Place Books is pleased to welcome Heather Durham to our Lake Forest Park store for a presentation of her new memoir, . At once restless and rooted, these lyric forays immerse in a single ecological landscape—in relationship with black bear and coyote, cedar and hemlock, water ouzel and chickadee, salmon and stream—and yet they range far, epic meanderings in the vast and changeable internal wilderness of a lifelong seeker. This event is free and open to the public.

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In this third collection, Heather Durham invites you into the lush terrain of a feral human in relationship with the more-than-human world, encountering new insights in the realms of folklore, feminism, ecophysiology, mental illness, and mysticism. Entering midlife as a single, queer, non-mothering, hypersensitive, forest-dwelling hermit in the midst of personal and cultural turmoil, she finds herself continually engaged with the question, who am I, and in these essays discovers twenty unique, profound, visceral, evocative, and still-evolving answers. At once restless and rooted, these lyric forays immerse in a single ecological landscape-in relationship with black bear and coyote, cedar and hemlock, water ouzel, and chickadee, salmon, and stream-and yet they range far, epic meanderings in the vast and changeable internal wilderness of a lifelong seeker.

Heather Durham is the author of the 2019 nature memoir Going Feral: Field Notes on Wonder and Wanderlust, which was selected as a Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist in Nature Writing, and the 2022 collection Wolf Tree: An Ecopsychological Memoir in Essays, which won a Nautilus Gold Award for Memoir in Essays. Heather holds degrees in psychology, ecology, and creative nonfiction, and lives, writes, works, and plays on the traditional lands of Coast Salish tribes in the Cascades foothills of Washington. Learn more at heatherdurhamauthor.com.

Founded in 1998 in Lake Forest Park, Washington, Third Place Books is dedicated to the creation of a community around books and the ideas inside them. With locations in Lake Forest Park and Seattle's Ravenna and Seward Park neighborhoods, Third Place Books is proud to serve the entire Seattle metro area. Learn more about their event series at thirdplacebooks.com/events.

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Third Place Books, 17171 Bothell Way Northeast, Lake Forest Park, United States