A portrait of an intense and unusual marriage, and an affirmation of life after suicide.

Laura Waterman is the author of Calling Wild Places Home: A Memoir in Essays (also published by SUNY Press) and Starvation Shore: A Novel. With her husband, Guy Waterman, she wrote numerous articles and books on the outdoors, including The Green Guide to Low-Impact Hiking and Camping; Wilderness Ethics: Preserving the Spirit of Wildness; and Yankee Rock & Ice: A History of Climbing in the Northeastern United States. In 2019, SUNY Press published the thirtieth-anniversary edition of the Watermans' book Forest and Crag: A History of Hiking, Trail Blazing, and Adventure in the Northeast Mountains. Laura Waterman lives in Vermont.