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Treefall
Fathers take on many burdens for their children, but none is so heavy as the burden of losing your child. Ned Morrow worked in the woods until the day everything changed. This powerful novelette by author Rebecka Ratcliffe (The Tiny Giant, The Only One Laughing) explores an intimate portrait of personal loss in the Oregon logging community during the 1970s.
Growing up in Oregon during the clash of environmental and economic concerns in the 1970s and 1980s, Rebecka Ratcliffe saw dozens of communities lose their main source of income as sawmills and logging outfits closed down. With her own father in the Forest Service, the woods were a constant presence in her life, whether they were camping, driving logging roads calling owls, or talking about protestors chained to the office doors. This story is set in a time and place where economic insecurity and loss would soon follow, and inspired by the idea that our foundations (literal and figurative) can be both hallowed and cursed.
Growing up in Oregon during the clash of environmental and economic concerns in the 1970s and 1980s, Rebecka Ratcliffe saw dozens of communities lose their main source of income as sawmills and logging outfits closed down. With her own father in the Forest Service, the woods were a constant presence in her life, whether they were camping, driving logging roads calling owls, or talking about protestors chained to the office doors. This story is set in a time and place where economic insecurity and loss would soon follow, and inspired by the idea that our foundations (literal and figurative) can be both hallowed and cursed.
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Published September 20, 2023
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