Description
After the deaths of her father and spouse’s father, Laurie Lawlor discovers an unlikely place for healing and transformation in a wetland in southeastern Wisconsin—a landscape of abundant and every now and then inaccessible beauty that has regularly been ignored, misunderstood, and threatened by human destruction. In her decade-long personal wetland journey, she examines the sky, delves underwater, and peers between sedges in all seasons and all times of day.
This Tender Place is a party of nature, the elements, and humanity. From the wetland’s genesis right through the ice age to its survival within the twenty-first century, Lawlor chronicles the universal ties among people, wild places, and healthy wetlands.
An engaging and deeply intimate record, This Tender Place is at its heart a story of refuge and renewal refracted during the lens of life inside the wetlands—one of the crucial productive, yet most endangered, ecosystems on this planet.