Wild Life (Paperback) [Gloss, Molly]

In 1905, a cigar-smoking, feminist writer of popular adventure novels for women encounters Bigfoot in Molly Gloss's best loved novel " ‚ ­ ‚ ­ ¢ € œnever has there been a more authentic, persuasive, or moving evocation of this elusive legend: a masterpiece ¢ € � (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

Set among lava sinkholes and logging camps at the fringe of the Northwest frontier in the early 1900s, ‚  Wild Life ‚  is the story "both real and imagined "of the free-thinking, cigar-smoking, trouser-wearing Charlotte Bridger Drummond, who pens dime-store women's adventure stories. One day, when a little girl gets lost in the woods, Charlotte anxiously joins the search. When she becomes lost in the dark and tangled woods, she finds herself face to face with a mysterious band of mountain giants ¢ € ¦or more commonly known as Sasquatch.

With great assurance and skill, Molly Gloss blends ¢ € œheady cerebral satisfactions, gorgeous prose, and page-turning adventure ¢ € � (Karen Joy Fowler, bestselling author of ‚  We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves), and puts a new spin on a classic piece of American folklore.