![]() ![]() It was like a stone in a pond and each ripple became a thread. ![]() “The other books were linear,” he explained, answering a question during Thursday afternoon’s reading. In his third book, Connors returns to the land he loves - the Gila - and the people - and characters - who call it home. His second book, “All the Wrong Places,” published in 2015, is a memoir about living in the shadow of his brother’s suicide. ![]() Amazon also named it best nature book of the year in 2011. His first, “Fire Season: Field Notes From a Wilderness Lookout,” published in 2011, which detailed one of his then nine seasons working as a fire spotter on the forest, won the National Outdoor Book Award, the Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award, the Reading the West Award for nonfiction, and the Grand Prize from the Banff Mountain Book Competition. This is Connors’ third book - his second about his beloved Gila (the forest and the river). Surrounded by some of his former neighbors and friends in what he said was the equivalent of his second living room when he lived in Silver City - Javalina Coffee House - author Philip Connors read from his latest book, “A Song for the River.” ![]()
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