Land Marks

“This polemical outing is both an elegy for ecosystems already lost and a call to action.” —Publishers Weekly

"This book will make you feel alive. Land Marks puts the reader on the gritty front lines of activism as Rebecca Walton, Lesert’s unforgettable protagonist, and a committed band of activists risk it all to battle fracking on Michigan soil. The final pages had me weeping with joy." —Katy Yocom, author of Three Ways to Disappear, winner of the Siskiyou Prize for Environmental Literature

“This compelling novel gets at the emotions that undergird activism—the love, the fear, the feeling that something somehow must be done. I recognized much that was familiar, and learned much that was new.” —Bill McKibben, author of Radio Free Vermont

“Land Marks is an important and powerful novel, and deserves its place in a growing literature of ecological resistance." —Derrick Jensen, author of A Language Older Than Words

"Through complicated characters and a compelling fictional narrative, Lesert gives readers a taste of the dedication and commitment of real people and groups working to protect the Great Lakes from the ravages of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas. . . . For tragically, this book is even more timely today than when it was selected as a 2021 Finalist for the Prism Prize for Climate Literature." —Gail Collins-Ranadive, author of Dinosaur Dreaming, Our Climate Moment

"Land Marks, Maryann Lesert’s savvy, mindful, and dramatic novel of intergenerational education and place defense, is writing as nonviolent direct action, principled and powerful." —Stephanie Mills, author of Tough Little Beauties and In Service of the Wild

 “An impassioned story of anti-fracking activism.” —Kirkus Reviews

"Maryann Lesert deftly weaves a story of compelling characters and lyrical descriptions of land and water with an urgent plea for the protection of the Earth while there is still time. Readers will be both entertained and inspired. This outstanding novel is about our common fight for the natural places and systems we hold dear, but it is also about our society's soul." —Liz Kirkwood, Executive Director of FLOW (For Love of Water)

“Land Marks is a novel that captures the unpleasant truths of fracking through a human lens, not only breaking hearts but warming them, too.” —Foreword Reviews