Piano Tide

Praise for Piano Tide "This is award-winning naturalist, philosopher, and climate activist Moore's first foray into fiction, and it is not only a remarkably thoughtful and compelling look at the threats to endangered species and the willful destruction of the environment but also a thoroughly engaging tale featuring vividly drawn characters who grab our interest from the very first pages...Moore writes so eloquently and with such passion about the natural world, from tiny tide pool inhabitants to giant grizzlies and towering hemlocks, that she leaves the reader in wonder and awe." -Booklist, starred review "Piano Tide is about putting a spear into the ground and saying, `I will defend this place however I can'; That puts it on the shelf with Monkey Wrench Gang, although Piano Tide is its own book and a damned good one."  Dave Foreman, author of The Great Conservation Divide and The Lobo Outback Funeral Home "Piano Tide joins Ken Kesey's Sailor Song as one of the great novels of Alaska and its convoluted coast and history. A small group of people making a life in a village by the sea: this is Kathy Moore's canvas, and she paints a really beautiful, intense, funny and lively portrait of Nora and her new neighbors. How to live in this world? Moore lets us ponder this by way of a great story, in this marvelous debut novel."  Kim Stanley Robinson, author of Years of Rice and Salt "I think Kathleen Dean Moore can do anything including write a savagely funny and deeply insightful novel of the tidepool and rainforest country she knows so well!" Bill McKibben "Piano Tide captures with remarkable perception the beauty of Alaska, the environmental conflicts that tear at and unite communities, and the interconnectedness of all things. You'll be swept into this world as if by a turning tide, and you will love the characters human and otherwise you find there. Moore writes from deep knowledge and empathy, with an open heart."  Nancy Lord, author of Fishcamp, Beluga Days, and Early Warming, and former Alaska Writer Laureate "An eco-thriller that is both funny and thought-provoking." -The Bend Bulletin "Moore's writing is dreamy and rhythmic, lulling as the sea, which murmurs in the background of her story. A prize-winning nature writer who resides in Oregon and spends summers on Chichagof Island, Moore doesn't hold back when it comes to description, and the Southeast Alaska landscape breathes around every page, every character . . . This is a remarkable book, a remarkable story, and if at times the landscape threatens to eclipse the characters, so be it. Because this is also a funny book, with characters so odd and funny, so lovable and flawed that one can't help but think of Steinbeck's Cannery Row." -Alaska Dispatch News Praise for Holdfast: At Home in the Natural World "Reminiscent of the work of Annie Dillard and others who have combined their observations of the natural world with philosophical reflections "  Publishers Weekly "Graceful meditations on nature an altogether satisfying collection by a gifted interpreter of the natural world."  Kirkus Reviews Praise for Wild Comfort: The Solace of Nature "Kathleen Dean Moore is a writer whose senses, heart, generosity, and intellect open in every direction. This book, filled with knowledge of the natural and human worlds, is a superb naturalist's handbook. It is also a praise book: an illuminated manuscript whose life overspills its own borders. In its grounded wisdoms, humility, curiosity, and in the kaleidoscope beauty of its descriptions, Wild Comfort reminds how to see, how to sing; how to welcome, with equal gravity and grace, whatever asks entrance into our lives. It is destined to become a classic."  Jane Hirshfield "What nature gives, it takes away. Kathleen Dean Moore feels the ache of this t

KATHLEEN DEAN MOORE is best-known for her books of nature-focused essays-Riverwalking: Reflections on Moving Water, winner of the 1995 Pacific Northwest Book Award; Holdfast: At Home in the Natural World, recipient of the 1999 Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award; The Pine Island Paradox, winner of the 2004 Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction; and Wild Comfort, finalist for the same award. Her most recent publication is Great Tide Rising (Counterpoint 2016). Moore writes from a small cabin where two creeks and a bear trail meet a tidal cove on Chichagof Island, Alaska.

PRELUDE Part One: Pink-Salmon Tide Part Two: Dog-Salmon Tide Part Three: Coho Tide CODA