Deep in the heart of a small, oak writing desk is a legacy that mysteriously connects three family women across centuries and generations in their fight for the future. Shima'a, an ancient woman with disturbing visions of the Earth's demise, sends a message of warning and a seed of hope forward in time within the heart of an acorn to three family women: Eliza: Post Gold Rush in the Sacramento Valley, late 19th century . Harmony: Back-to-the-land homestead in the Sierra Nevada, late 20th century . Amisha: Dystopic San Francisco and the Sierra Nevada, late 21st century. Writing on the heartwood of the old desk, each woman is influenced by the ancient message as she views mankind's escalating destruction of the natural world through the eyes of her time. The women learn to listen to the silence, hold the earth in their hands, gather the women, then do what must be done. Heart Wood is a compelling family saga set in the foothills of California's Sierra Nevada. Its characters shift from one generation to the next, as do the struggles they face in saving their homestead from the ravages of climate change, fire, and human greed. But it is mankind that poses the most dire challenges to the land and to those who seek life upon it. Heart Wood speaks of the collective power of feminine energy to protect the Earth. If you feel you're not doing enough or that it's already too late to make a difference, Heart Wood may give you hope. An eco-speculative-historical-mystical-feminist novel.
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A fourth generation Californian, Shirley has always been passionate about living close to the land and protecting the earth. Her first novel, Heart Wood, was written from her homestead that she and her husband built in the 1970s in the Sierra Nevada, Northern California. Shirley earned her RN degree from the University of California, San Francisco. She draws on her background as a pediatric nurse, and as former executive director of a rural non-profit where she promoted community-building as a means of improving children's health. She served as co-producer of The Women's Writing Salon and is a founding member of the Sierra Muses Writing Workshop and Press in Nevada City. Shirley is the senior editor of a community newspaper, serves as the family's historian, and is an avid naturalist. When she is not writing, Shirley is walking in the woods with her husband and dog, spending time with their two daughters' families, volunteering in the community, and tending their large homestead garden and orchard. Website and Blog: www.shirleydickard.com
