The Wild Heavens is also the latest in a formidable line of novels with strong female protagonists imbedded in the rugged backdrop of the rural BC Interior perhaps Ethel Wilson’s Swamp Angel (1954) is the model to which writers such as Theresa Kishkan and Gail Anderson-Dargatz (and now Butler) have been drawn.
In this stimulating debut, the natural world is more than a backdrop it offers survival, companionship, lessons for living an ethical life, and emotional, spiritual, and intellectual sustenance - not to mention challenges to human notions of supremacy.
From chickadees to lynxes, cedars to lichen, rubber boas to salmon, the other-than human world permeates Sarah Louise Butler’s The Wild Heavens.
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