Oak Flat: A Fight For Sacred Land In The American West

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

“Brilliant . . . Astonishing . . . Virtuosic. . . Redniss defies our desire for black-and-white dichotomies, for heroes and villains . . . [Oak Flat] establishes Redniss as a master storyteller of a new order.”

— ELIZA GRISWOLD, The New York Times

“Redniss has a flair for weaving deep reporting and visual storytelling into immersive and engrossing nonfiction. Oak Flat is full of sensitive portraits—in both words and vivid drawings [that] capture the surreal beauty of the region.”
— The Wall Street Journal

“Redniss creates books like no one else’s. . . Oak Flat is a fervent and beautiful argument. . . . It is, one might hope, proof of art’s purpose: to expand minds, to promote beauty, and to make change.”
— NPR  

“Redniss offers herself as a witness, giving life to the people and place through straightforward dialogue and rich, sweeping illustrations. It’s a vital read and a staggering work of art.”
— BuzzFeed

“Artistically and thematically profound . . . As a work of advocacy, the book is compelling and convincing; as a work of art, it is masterful.”
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Redniss creates a stunningly holistic and deeply moving tale of how we value and live on the earth for better and for worse.”
— Booklist (starred review)

“In Oak Flat, Lauren Redniss has produced a supernova: a dazzling blend of deep reporting, sublime artwork, haunting dialogue, and descriptive writing that has the crystalline precision of a prose poem…A vivid, searing, indelible act of witness.”
— PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain

“Oak Flat left me stunned…Rarely is a book simultaneously so heartfelt and so brilliant.”
— DAVID TREUER, New York Times bestselling author of The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

“Lauren Redniss’s Oak Flat unfolds and unfolds, moving swiftly and seamlessly from the cosmological to the geological to the intimate regions of the human heart. It tackles a painful, important subject with grace, rendering everyone and everything it investigates with uncommon intimacy, curiosity, and dignity.”
— MAGGIE NELSON, author of The Argonauts

“Blending journalism, politics, poetry, and art is a literary high-wire act. Lauren Redniss is one of the few artists who can do it. Oak Flat is a be- witching and mesmerizing book.”
— MARJANE SATRAPI, author of Persepolis

“Artistically and thematically profound . . . As a work of advocacy, the book is compelling and convincing; as a work of art, it is masterful.”
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Gorgeous, devastating, and hopeful.”
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Enthralling…deeply moving.”
— Booklist (starred review)