Olivia Butler

Sep 3, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Daniel Mason |Olga Tokarczuk |Antonia Lloyd-Jones |Olivia Butler

Nature as tangled forest, as oil-drenched bayou or salt desert. Nature as flux and change. In all the books discussed here, the writers use ideas of nature as backdrops for perplexing and life-changing character dilemmas. The ideas of nature are different in every case, and the protagonists are all searching for something they don’t quite understand the nature of, but the common thread is nature always presiding, abiding, inspiring and looming. Nature provoking.