Cassandra Kircher’s first book explores her connection to nature through 13 place-based personal essays.
Praise for Far Flung
“This bold, jaunty narrative travels to the unexpected places and tangos with unanticipated obsessions. I can easily imagine Kircher’s book shelved alongside contemporary place-based work by Ana Maria Spagna, Blair Braverman, and Cheryl Strayed.”
–Elena Passerello, author of Animals Strike Curious Poses
“In a voice as clear and compelling as a tumbling mountain stream, Cassandra Kircher writes of family, landscape, and the deep and sometimes mystical ways in which we are bound to the land and bound to each other. This book is an intimate, meditative journey into the human heart, with no shortage of adventures along the way.”
–Kristen Iversen, author of Full Body Burden: Growing up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats
“Kircher’s book is no easy roam through feel-good girl-power woods narratives. She traverses complicated terrain: a wounded family, the limits of her own empowerment, and the complexities of human adventuring. Thank God for that!”
–Christine Byl, author of Dirt Work: An Education in the Woods