Catherine Raven

Winner of the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. 2022 Nautilus Book Awards Gold Winner. Shortlisted for the John Burroughs Medal. Finalist for the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize. Shortlisted for a Reading the West Book Award. Instant New York Times Bestseller. A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of the Year. 2021 Summer Reading Pick by Buzzfeed, New York...

A solitary woman's inspiring, moving, surprising, and often funny memoir about the transformative power of her unusual friendship with a wild fox. Catherine Raven left home at 15, fleeing an abusive father and an indifferent mother. Drawn to the natural world, she worked as a ranger in national parks, at times living in her run-down car on abandoned construction sites,...