by LESLIE SCHWARTZ ~
"A tender, closely-observed tale in which a tragedy in a small mountain town reverberates among its eccentric cast of residents. Each deeply wounded in his or her experience of life, they nevertheless form a community in which loss can be held and a future made possible. Leslie Schwartz writes with precision and grace."
--Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander

"Leslie Schwartz writes with stunning clarity about small town life at high altitudes"the ever-shifting counterpoints of community and isolation, exile and belonging, idle gossip and fierce loyalties. She evokes the breathtaking beauty and brutal indifference of the Sierran landscape"and, it would seem, of angels"and casts her loving yet unblinking eye on the lapses and compulsions that make even the best of us monstrous and, therefore, irremediably human. Schwartz understands on a fundamental level that we are all cut from the same cloth and thus require and deserve each other's love, pity and, above all, mercy. Angels Crest is a numinous, gorgeous book."
--Michelle Huneven, author of Jamesland


From the Hardcover edition.