“In a nation still wholly obsessed with diversity, the writers in Trespass manage to brilliantly situate themselves in the sinew of liberation, loss, and love. By foregrounding the prose, possibilities, and politics of place, race, and gender, each writer in this iconic collection goes beyond the space of reckoning. The book conjures a tomorrow anchored in, but not predictably dictated by, yesterday. This is a once-in-a-generation book.”

“The women in this volume write breathtakingly beautiful and complex essays dealing with what Terry Tempest Williams repeatedly asks in her essay ‘A Disturbance of Birds’: ‘How shall I live?’ and ‘How shall we live?’ Isn’t this another way of asking ourselves, how do we persevere in the midst of rupture? How do we repair and heal selves, families, nations, earth?”

“In this exquisitely written collection of essays, women explore the ways we make our lives out of and inside places, and how we are connected across distances by empathy, narrative, and imagination. In the course of unpacking their stories―of migration, of family, of home―they tell greater stories: about history and identity, loss and transformation, writing and making one’s self.”

“Since its founding in 2005, Ecotone has been publishing work that enriches our understanding of nature, identity, and place. As evidence, here are twenty revelatory essays, all by women, on subjects ranging from birth to death, including race and religion, family roots, enduring beauty, and the healing of self and world. Eloquent, insightful, diverse in background and voice, these writers bring us news that matters.”