Pleasing Tree

Nominated For The 2020 Clmp Firecracker Award For Creative Nonfiction And The 2020 Association For Mormon Letters Award For Creative Nonfiction brooke Larsons Essay Collection Pleasing Tree Explores The Human Relationship With The Wilderness. Beginning With A Mormon-founded Experiment In Primitive Survival, Teenagers Hike The Arizona Desert While Larson Shines Light On The Effects Of Prolonged Exposure To The Outdoors, To Lands Considered Inhospitable To Life. Recalling Biblical And Religious Sojourns, Larson Maps Her Own Travels From The Desert To Salt Lake City To York City To Jerusalem, Observing The Life That Curls In A Leaf, The Bug That Spews Cinnamon-flavored Goo, And The Water That Occasionally Floods The Desert.