Edgy Books About People and Places in the West
Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award
“Pure Land is so gripping, so well reported, and so well told that it deserves space on the bookshelf next to major commercial successes like Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild and Terry Tempest Williams’ Refuge.” — Outside
“A rivoting read.” —The Durango Herald
“McGivney exposes the fallacy that is America, both by illustrating the decline of once-prosperous Native American nations and by exposing the ugly underbelly of her own upper-middle class childhood.” — Flyway Journal
“McGivney takes the reader on a journey through little known areas, onto Native American reservations, and to Japan. She takes people into the heart of domestic violence and how three people’s lives had three different outcomes because of it. It is a moving journey and a journey worth taking.” — Navajo-Hopi Observer
Photo on homepage of Toroweap, Grand Canyon National Park by John Burcham