Eyes of the Forest

Eyes of the Forest engages the greatest issues of our age without pretension through the eyes of both human and non-human life. Set in Canada's boreal forest, the fire lookouts, tree planters, loggers, and oil patch rounders inhabit a narrative that raises the stakes to Planet Earth itself. Here are women sketching their identities on the front lines of an ecological battle---robust, soulful, revolutionary women, harbingers of a new mythology. Some of the male characters are lost or searching souls, ghosts of that dying culture of Adam's right to dominion. At the heart of it all, a young woman and a young man struggle for a love as beautiful and precarious as the wilderness around them. Passionate, exotic, and slightly apocalyptic, the novel challenges the dominant American myth of 'taming the West.' from the publisher Demuth s debut novel is a breath of fresh air. Her prose is wonderfully descriptive and confident, an ode to nature in its most primal form. City dwellers such as myself are reminded of what we do not know about the wild, and what we are all at risk of losing in our selfish shortsightedness. -- Kaylie Jones, award-winning author of Speak Now and A Soldier s Daughter Never Cries In this wonderful debut novel, Eyes of the Forest is a metaphor for the consciousness inside a nature that suffers environmental abuse, making the book an arresting experiment in the techniques of magical realism. The heroine s odyssey is absorbing, and the love story as gripping as the machinations of environmental politics...Profound and page-turning. -- Lyn Di Iorio Sandin, author of Killing Spanish and Assistant Professor of English at The City College of New York