{"title":"Deborah Lee Luskin","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"reviving-artemis","title":"Reviving Artemis: The Making of a Huntress","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAn aging woman finds her place in the natural world as a huntress.\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReviving Artemis is the unlikely story of a woman raised in mid-twentieth-century suburbia who lived in New York City as a young adult and moved to Vermont in 1984. For more than thirty years, she raised domestic livestock, kept bees, and cultivated fruits and vegetables while teaching literature and telling stories. But when she turned sixty, something shifted. Luskin was overtaken by a primal urge to step out of the garden, off the blazed trails, and into untracked forest by learning to hunt deer. Deeply personal, lyrically told, and funny, Reviving Artemis reveals Luskin’s ambivalence about guns and her fear of entering the forest alone in the dark. She persisted, using her literary acumen to read the forest and, as thoughtfully as she hunts for words, to hunt for deer. With the stories of Artemis, goddess of the hunt, childbirth, and wild nature to inspire her, Luskin became a huntress, determined to age fiercely and compelled to tell this story of finding her place in the natural world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sibylline Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46840526766309,"sku":"9781960573759","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/0271\/2549\/files\/Reviving-Artemis.jpg?v=1750226006"},{"product_id":"into-the-wilderness-a-novel","title":"Into the Wilderness: A Novel","description":"\u003ch3 data-start=\"192\" data-end=\"215\"\u003eInto the Wilderness\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"217\" data-end=\"252\"\u003eCould two people be more different?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"254\" data-end=\"463\"\u003eIt’s 1964. Rose Mayer is recently widowed—Jewish, outspoken, and a lifelong Democrat from the city. Percy Mendell is a quiet Vermont farmer who has never married and has never voted for a Democrat in his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"465\" data-end=\"518\"\u003eWhen they meet, sparks fly—but not the romantic kind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"520\" data-end=\"869\"\u003eYet as the seasons turn across the rugged Vermont landscape, irritation gives way to curiosity, and curiosity to something far more unexpected. At sixty-four, both Rose and Percy have long believed their lives—and their opinions—are firmly set. Opening their hearts to each other will take humor, stubbornness, and more courage than either expected.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"871\" data-end=\"1063\"\u003eSet against the changing seasons and political tensions of the 1960s, \u003cem data-start=\"941\" data-end=\"962\"\u003eInto the Wilderness\u003c\/em\u003e is a tender, wise love story about second chances—and the surprising flexibility of the human heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAwarded the IPPY Gold Medal for Regional Fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDeborah Lee Luskin moved from New York City to Vermont in 1984 to write, garden, keep bees, and raise daughters. She has been an editorial columnist, radio commentator, pen-for-hire, and blogger. Luskin also enjoyed a long career as an educator. Engaged in civic life, Luskin practiced restorative justice as a volunteer at the Brattleboro Community Justice Center and served as the elected Town Moderator in Newfane, Vermont. She holds a PhD English Literature, the obvious training for becoming a homesteader, deer-hunter, and writer. Reviving Artemis: The Making of a Huntress, her memoir, tells the story of coming-of-age at sixty and finding her place in the natural world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePraise for Into the Wilderness\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The book is a complex love letter to Vermont.”\u003cbr\u003e—The Commons, Windham County’s Independent Weekly\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Into the Wilderness is a fiercely intelligent love story.”\u003cbr\u003e—The Rutland Herald\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Deborah Lee Luskin weaves together an enchanting tale of solitude, friendship and romance in her novel, Into the Wilderness.”\u003cbr\u003e—The Jewish Advocate\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sibylline Digital First","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":48507769782501,"sku":"9798897409518","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Trade Paper","offer_id":48507769749733,"sku":"9798897409525","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/0271\/2549\/files\/Into-the-Wilderness-Final.jpg?v=1772865419"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.sibyllinepress.com\/collections\/deborah-lee-luskin.oembed","provider":"Sibylline Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}