# The Night Field - Hardcover

by **Donna Glee Williams** (Author)

**A magnificent, moving ecological fable: welcome to The Real, where Pyn-Poi's people live in harmony with nature - until a brown fog threatens their whole world.**

Pyn-Poi's mother Marak wants her to grow up to be the matriarch of the tribe, learning how to cook, to make medicines, how to care for everyone, but Pyn-Poi would rather be out among the trees like her father Sook-Sook, learning how persuade tree roots into bridges, to feel when shoots are too crowded, when drooping leaves need attention.

Then something starts going wrong in The Real: when the rains come, instead of nourishment, they bring a stinking brown fog that's poisoning people and plants alike. Pyn-Poi is the treewoman now: it's her job. Their only chance is for her to climb to the land beyond the Wall, where the Ancestors live, to plead for their intercession.

Pyn-Poi never expected to find a whole new world up there, with people who are very different from her own family and friends - a land where they are killing nature, and that's killing The Real.

**The trees have a job for Pyn-Poi, and to succeed, she is going to have to be brave and strong and true - no matter what.**

​"A moving ecological fable, written with her signature grace and compassion" -Elaine Isaak, author of _The Singer's Legacy_

### Author Biography

Pushcart Prize-nominee **Donna Glee Williams** was born in Mexico, the daughter a Kentucky farm-girl and a Texas large-animal vet. She graduated from Tulane University, then earned an MFA and Ph.D. from Louisiana State University. Her years of wayfaring across twenty countries and four continents include a Fulbright Fellowship to study pesticide issues among small cotton farmers in India, which is where she found the inspiration for _The Night Field_. She's worked as turnabout crew on a schooner, librarian, environmental activist, registered nurse, educator, editor and creative coach, as well as writing two fantasy novels, _The Braided Path_ and _Dreamers_, as well as poetry and nonfiction. She lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.

**Number of Pages:** 400

**Dimensions:** 1.24 x 9.48 x 6.37 IN

**Publication Date:** July 25, 2023

## Details

- **Price:** 28.0 USD
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