Heartwood

''Heartwood is a true wilderness thriller: a missing person quest rendered in agile, extraordinary prose by a novelist at the height of her powers. I found it nearly impossible to put down'' Jennifer Egan Valerie Gillis, a 42-year-old nurse, is hiking the Appalachian Trail, a legendarily challenging route that runs from Georgia to Maine, taking in fourteen states. She has almost reached the end when she vanishes. Beverly Miller, the first female game warden ever hired in the state of Maine, has a near-perfect record of finding lost people. She is leading a search and rescue mission through the impenetrable woods. Meanwhile, Lena follows the case online from her retirement home, believing she might hold the key to the case. Heartwood is a love letter to mothers, daughters, nurses, first responders, loners, and lovers of nature, and to anyone who''s been lost along the way.

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Amity Gaige is the author of four novels, including Sea Wife (Fleet, April 2020). She is the winner of a Fulbright Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship for Fiction. She teaches creative writing at Yale. Her short stories, essays, and book reviews have appeared in publications such as the New York Times, the Guardian, Die Welt, Harper's Bazaar, the Yale Review, Slate.com, One Story, Ploughshares and elsewhere. She lives with her family in West Hartford, Connecticut.

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HEARTWOOD is an enthralling literary mystery about a hiker lost in the woods, and the indomitable women who set out to find her... perfect for fans of Rebecca Makkai, Maggie Shipstead and Shelley Read