Book Club: Refuge on the Shoreline

About This Event

Join ambassador Alison Bond and co-founder Angelique Fish for our 4th and final book club hike of 2023. For this event, we’ll do a short hike to a view of the Great Salt Lake (which is a big part of our final book). Once there, we’ll set up our chairs for our book club discussion. We’ll also enjoy dinner, provided by the Wine Hiking Society.

September 27 Book & Hike Info

For our 4th and final book club of the season, we will read and discuss Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place by Terry Tempest Williams. Here is a short summary of the book:

“In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, The Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge and the herons, owls, and snowy egrets that Williams, a poet and naturalist, had come to gauge her life by. One event was nature at its most random, the other a by-product of rogue technology: Terry’s mother, and Terry herself, had been exposed to the fallout of atomic bomb tests in the 1950s. As it interweaves these narratives of dying and accommodation, Refuge transforms tragedy into a document of renewal and spiritual grace, resulting in a work that has become a classic.”