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Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land

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“Trespass might as well be Desert Solitaire‘s literary heir . . . It is hard to believe a personal history more transporting that this one.”―Judith Lewis, Los Angels Times Book Review

Trespass is the story of one woman’s struggle to gain footing in inhospitable territory. A wilderness activist and apostate Mormon, Amy Irvine sought respite in the desert outback of southern Utah’s red-rock country after her father’s suicide, only to find out just how much of an interloper she used to be among her own people. But more than simply an exploration of personal loss, Trespass is an elegy for a dying world, for the ruin of certainly one of our most beloved and unique desert landscapes and for our vanishing connection to it. Fearing what her father’s fate might come what may portend for her, Irvine retreated into the remote recesses of the Colorado Plateau―home not only to the world’s most renowned national parks but also to a rugged brand of cowboy Mormonism that stands in defiant contrast to the world at large. Her story is certainly one of ruin and restoration, of learning to live among people who fear the wilderness the way they fear the devil and how that fear fuels an antagonism toward environmental concerns that pervades the region. On the same time, Irvine mourns her own lack of wildness and disconnection from spirituality, at the same time as in the end discovering that the provinces of nature and faith don’t seem to be as distinct as she once might have believed.

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