FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wolf Tours; Explore love, language, climate change, and how individuals find and create meaning in nature.
Wheat Ridge, CO — September 10, 2024 – Fulcrum Publishing is excited to announce the publication of Wolf Tours by Alyse Knorr. Knorr creates a captivating world in which readers will encounter themes like climate change and grief, queer love, linguistics, and intercultural connection alongside a sentient pack of wolves in Colorado’s southwest. This novel-in-verse is steeped in wildness and a true reverence for the natural world and those that inhabit it, including Rodney, our narrator and tour guide.
Readers join this unique eco-tourism company run by a pack of sentient wolves, offering life-changing adventures for humans seeking a deeper connection with nature. Rodney, on a journey of self-discovery herself, and grappling with a recent heartbreak struggles to connect with tour participants despite desperately wanting to. Knorr writes with sensitivity and creativity, weaving a tapestry of lyrical and inventive verse, while Rodney and the tour group navigate the wilderness and a changing landscape together.
Eco-grief is the main theme running throughout Wolf Tours, and it is expressed as fear, panic, pain, and despair and personified under the name “Scarlet.” Scarlet represents darkness, death, the fear of death, and the self-destructive impulse or “death drive” that lies within all humans and that the humans on the Wolf Tour must confront.
Ultimately, the book asks what it means to be “wild” vs. domesticated, and confronts all that is lost when experiences of the natural world are filtered through capitalism and curated by eco-tourism companies seeking profits. In this way, Wolf Tours questions and problematizes the popular idea of “finding oneself” in nature, and asks how spiritually transformative experiences in nature may be cheaply transactional or otherwise exploitative for nature itself.
The book’s hero is Rodney, the “utter worst” of the wolf tour guides, who is desperate to please her human clients but blunders constantly and is unable to say any human words except “thanks” and “books.” Rodney is recovering after being abandoned recently by her beloved, and throughout the book, she tells and re-tells her story of heartbreak in an attempt to process her own guilt, regret, and shame. Rodney’s narrative calls into question the role that storytelling can play in the healing process, which can be extrapolated beyond her own hurts to the healing of the earth itself.
Other themes in the book include dreams, dream logic, and dream worlds; lies in and about the media; the nature of truth and reality; and the failures, limits, and potentialities of language.
To order books wholesale | orders@fulcrumbooks.com
Contact us about Wolf Tours, Kateri@fulcrumbooks.com
Note to Media: If you’re interested in virtual events, interviews, or collaborations with the author, please contact Kateri Kramer Fulcrum Publishing’s marketing director
Email: kateri@fulcrumbooks.com
About Fulcrum Publishing: Fulcrum Publishing is a leading independent publisher of literary works that explore conservation and stewardship, American culture, civics, and the American West. Our mission is to empower authors and engage readers through timeless, thought-provoking titles that inspire passion, progress, and perseverance.
.png){kind=small}
Comentários