It matters in the characters’ lives as they hike its trails, argue about dogs, deal with willow roots that break the septic tank, and debate politics on the lesbian listserv. The rural West Coast in this book is not just pretty backdrop, it’s under everything. Full of acute observation about how people are, how they view themselves, how they delude themselves. What the reader discovers in that soil is often unpleasant, sometimes hopeful, but always revealing.” - “Aside from being significant and important and true and compelling and all that, This Unlikely Soil is just super fun to read. It felt like I was digging my metaphorical hands into the fecund soil of author Andrea Routley’s impressive literary imaginations. "Routley's gimlet eye suggests a deep wisdom about the power dynamics of women's lightful, funny and acerbic.a blisteringly comic account." -Brett Josef Grubisic, The Vancouver Sun “Reading was a discovery.
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