Awards

• Commended for WILLA Literary Award (Creative Nonfiction) 2012

Overview

When Louise Wagenknecht's family arrived in the remote logging town of Happy Camp in 1962, a boundless optimism reigned. Whites and Indians worked together in the woods and the lumber mills of northern California's Klamath country. Logging and lumber mills, it seemed, would hold communities together forever.But that booming prosperity would come to an end. Looking back on her teenage years spent along the Klamath River, Louise Wagenknecht recounts a vanishing way of life. She explores the dynamics of family relationships and the contradictions of being female in a western logging town in the 1960s. And she paints an evocative portrait of the landscape and her relationship with it. ""Light on the Devils"" is a readable and elegant memoir of place. It will appeal to general readers interested in the Pacific Northwest, personal memoir, history, and natural history.

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"""I haven't read anything quite like this book. The narrator is a naturalist, raised among loggers and millworkers. Her social milieu is Forest Service, and she takes an unflinching view backward at the complicity of well?meaning government in the excesses of industrial forestry. This is not just another environmental scream. It's intelligent and balanced. It's unique.""--Robin Cody, author of ""Ricochet River"" and ""Voyage of a Summer Sun"""

I haven't read anything quite like this book. The narrator is a naturalist, raised among loggers and millworkers. Her social milieu is Forest Service, and she takes an unflinching view backward at the complicity of well?meaning government in the excesses of industrial forestry. This is not just another environmental scream. It's intelligent and balanced. It's unique. --Robin Cody, author of Ricochet River and Voyage of a Summer Sun

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