From the bestselling author of The Dog Stars and The River\, the story of a young girl coming of a ge among the streams and mountains of southern Vermont&mdash\;an unforgett able tale of love\, friendship\, loss\, and the enduring power of nature.< /p>\n
Hayley and her seven-year-old daughter\, Frith\, live in a rustic cabin with no electricity in the foothills of Vermont&rsquo\;s Green Mount ains. One of the world&rsquo\;s most renowned translators of poetry from C hina&rsquo\;s Tang dynasty\, Hayley walked away from her career and her dr ug-addicted husband to raise Frith alone in a land populated not by ambiti on-fueled academics but by hawks\, beavers\, and other wild things&mdash\; including their exuberant Bernese mountain mutt\, Bear. They get by on wha t little they earn from their overgrown apple orchard and the syrup they m ake from their maple trees. Frith&mdash\;precocious\, homeschooled\, and a voracious reader&mdash\;considers herself queen of this backwoods paradis e. She is too young to understand the pain and regret that have followed h er mother here.
\nSeason after season\, it is the three of them&mdas h\;mother\, daughter\, and dog&mdash\;until the sunny March day when Rose Lattimore appears at their door. Rose is an artist and kindred spirit whos e unexpected friendship upends Hayley and Frith&rsquo\;s solitary existenc e. Rosie takes the edge off the worries of day-to-day survival and encoura ges the playful aspects of living in nature: fishing\, picnics\, swimming in a quarry. Frith thrives under the loving care of Hayley and Rosie and\, with a child&rsquo\;s innocence\, assumes their happiness will last forev er. Instead\, their lives are shattered by unexpected tragedy and Frith mu st come to terms with heartbreak and fear.
\nPeter Heller is unique in his ability to capture the beauty and nuance of the natural world and i ts pull on women and men. In The Orchard\, he pairs evocative storytelling with jewel-like poems&mdash\;Hayley&rsquo\;s translations of her most bel oved Tang poet\, Li Xue&mdash\;that echo Hayley and Frith&rsquo\;s life in the wilderness and tell their own tale of mother and daughter. By turns j oyful and searing\, The Orchard examines the fragility of childhood\, moth erhood\, romantic love\, and friendship\, and celebrates the enduring sola ce of nature.
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