“Exhausted, discouraged, working every day on a house that he fears will never be a home for him and his increasingly distant wife, seeing a “grizzled old coot” in a window, and realizing it is him, Schooler decides to take a walk. A long, arduous walk. In a remote stretch of coastline that has an amazing history yet is incredibly difficult to access, Schooler encounters nature at her most capricious, wild and beautiful. Though his journey is solitary, Schooler is accompanied by the stories of the people who preceded him: Tlingit Indians, trappers, explorers, marooned sailors, hermits. It is in this vast wilderness that he ponders these past travelers and discovers how the trials of life can be better borne with the help and community of others. Beautifully written.”—Barb, Paulina Springs Books, with locations in Sisters and Redmond, OR

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