Moonlight Elk: One Woman's Hunt for Food and Freedom Patrick Bringley National Book Critics Circle Award

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner

She gathers her belongings and slips out before her new husband can stop her

aka Detective Duck

featuring illustrations from the renowned archives of the New York Botanical Garden and authoritative text from The National Audubon Society

attempts to reconcile what she remembers with what she fears

Moonlight Elk: One Woman's Hunt for Food and Freedom Patrick Bringley National Book Critics Circle AwardChristie Green learned to hunt in order to complement the food she grew in her New Mexico garden. As an act of practical agency this fulfilled her needs, yet a restlessness stirred within. She longed for a life defined by something deeper than weekly schedules, work roles, and cultural norms. Could she travel beyond the supposed domain of women and venture into the world of animals, into the wild, where men were said to prevail? Outside the grip of