TURNING HOMEWARD: Restoring Hope and Nature in the Urban Wild

Grief-stricken after her father's death, Adrienne Ross Scanlan journeys west to seek a new life in a new place. Arriving in Seattle without a job and knowing no one, she encounters the iconic Pacific Northwest salmon in an unlikely place—a Puget Sound suburban creek—and discovers home by helping restore the nature that lives alongside us. Part memoir, part science-based nature writing, Turning Homeward takes us into the messiness and satisfaction of hands-on restoration, whether it's the ci...