![]() ![]() Norah studies birds academically as an adult, and when her father grows ill, she decides to be his full-time caregiver. ![]() For years, both father and daughter protected an endangered flock of Gunnison sage-grouse just within the border of their ranch. Norah is the grown daughter of a ranch owner who recently suffered a stroke. The first story, “Ledgers,” fully illustrates Boyles’s creative goals. Although this is a collection of short stories, Boyles chronologically follows the arc of several characters, exploring how lives intertwine with the environment people create. Claire Boyles’s collection of short stories, Site Fidelity, seamlessly fuses the lives and struggles of ordinary people in the American West with the wider challenges of living in a natural environment stressed by climate and economic changes. ![]()
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