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

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner

Some of them make shapes called constellations

the two women are forced to make a terrible decision that will bind them together for the rest of their lives

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

they can only mean trouble

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