# Yellow Pine

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- Book: [Yellow Pine](https://www.bookquiver.com/claire-vaye-watkins/yellow-pine) ([Yellow Pine.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/claire-vaye-watkins/yellow-pine.md))
- Authors: [Claire Vaye Watkins](https://www.bookquiver.com/claire-vaye-watkins)
- Publisher: riverrun
- Medium: audio
- ISBN: 978-15-2944-975-4
- Published: 2026-07-21
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook

## Description

A desert scorched feminist eco-novel, Yellow Pine is about a self-determined pioneer woman romping into her forties and recovering from her rugged individualism. Rose is a divorced, disillusioned Sierra Club staffer residing in Tecopa, a tiny town in the Mojave Desert wilderness, near Death Valley. Living apart from her young daughter much of the time, she emerges from the pandemic-induced loneliness to rekindle a passionate romance with an old flame, Miles. When their torturous on-again-off-again cycle hits 'off-again' Rose resolves to have a second baby without Miles. Enlisting her comrades from an encampment protesting Yellow Pine, a for-profit industrial solar array on formerly public land, Rose's unorthodox approach to conception becomes a search for community, rest, recovery, and communion with the divine in the face of mass extinction. Yellow Pine is a meditation on disillusionment and re-enchantment, about sacrifice and chronic grief, the refuge of love, and defending the sacred.