In A High Place

"This generous novel takes the full measure of
some people who, at first glance, strike us as 
the most ordinary of men and women. It is her 
triumph that the result is nothing short of 
extraordinary."
Raymond Carver, Cathedral 

     Warm, reckless, humorous, intelligent--Lily Baldwin is determined to get a grip on life. She's left her husband in San Francisco and taken her three children to live in the Sierra town of Tullease. It's hardly home--they're not natives--nor do they belong to the invasion of Disney nature-lovers come to taste the 'alpine experience.'

     One autumn afternoon Lily and the children go hiking on the mountainside. A sudden early storm blows off the summit, slamming tragedy into the family's struggle for belonging and love. 'Fast, mysterious', 'tirelessly inventive', 'as lyrical as it is funny', this novel explodes with a formidable writing talent--and an unforgettable contemporary heroine.
     In a High Place marks the debut of a consum­mately talented storyteller, Joanne Meschery, whose first novel is an inspired tale about the twin miracles of love and redemption and the tenacity of the American Dream.

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