"Fierce . the most vivid ground-level report from this war zone that I have ever read."-Grace Lichtenstein,The Washington Post"A story as raw and stinging as a fresh burn .Trespassmight well beDesert Solitaire's literary heir . it's hard to imagine a personal history more transporting than this one, with its rigorously original prose (not a single cliché in 300-plus pages), emotional detail and bibliophilic departures into the musty caverns of American history. And then there are the lessons and metaphors Irvine weaves into her stricken, conflicted narrative. One can learn a great deal from "Trespass" about desert botany and geology, the politics of land management and the arcane lore of Mormonism." -Judith Lewis,Los AngelesTimes Book Review"[Irvine] braids together threads of Mormon history, her own family's stories and her quest of illumination, creating a singularly elegiac and astringent memoir of dissent .
"-Donna Seaman,Chicago Tribune"I hate that question that ends up on so many Q&As: If you could have five authors, living or dead, to a dinner party, who would you invite? How the hell should I know? Is James Joyce a picky eater? These things are important. Then I started reading Amy Irvine'sTrespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land, and I not only wanted to invite her over, I wanted to get myself a gun and kill a goose for dinner . This is my kind of woman." -Jessa Crispin,Bookslut"A fierce and lyrical memoir."-Orion"An unusual hybrid that combines memoir, natural history, Western history, anthropology, and an examination of the Mormon religion . Luckily, [Irvine's] clear, detailed prose will help ground readers as they try to keep up with the leaps of her fertile mind . a loud, bracing, honest cry from the wilderness."-Jenny Shank,New West"Irvine delivers a distinctive, affecting meditation on loss-an amalgam of personal history, natural history, and a search for spirituality .
in unexpected places. "-Carmela Ciuraru,More"Bold and original in her thinking, candid and lyrical in expression, Irvine launches a penetrating critique of Mormon sovereignty, the persistent oppression of women, the longing to belong versus the need to be one's self, and the environmental havoc wrought by cattle ranching, "extreme recreationists," and the federally sanctioned, post-9/11 rush to extract fossil fuels from protected public lands . Forthright and imaginative, sensitive and tough, Irvine joins red-rock heroes Edward Abbey and Terry Tempest Williams in breaking ranks and speaking up for the living world."-Booklist, starred review"Irvine's language is lovely, her stories compelling. She shares deep insights."-Julia Whitty,Mother Jones"Compelling [and] beautifully written."-Maureen J. Delaney-Lehman,Library Journal"Irvine structures her memoir cannily around the four eras of local native American prehistoric culture (Lithic, Archaic, Basketmaker and Pueblo), each reflecting a period of migration and settlement in her own life .
her views on wilderness preservation ring passionately."-Publishers Weekly "Trespassis the story of one woman's escape: from the Mormon Church, from her father's demons, from her own self-sabotage. Irvine's take on early Native Americans in the Southwest and hu.