Sinkhole: A Personal History of Loss and Land

“A literary triumph.”—Terry Tempest Williams

“A master class in the way truth can pry open the deepest cellar, how language can calm a raw, ragged soul.”—Margaret Renkl

A haunting and sublimely elegant memoir that reckons with the violence we inflict on the land and ourselves.

When Juliet Patterson’s father dies by suicide, she is left with a grief shaped not only by loss, but by legacy. His death repeats a disturbing pattern in her family: Her father’s father had taken his o...