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A woman longing for a life defined by something deeper than weekly schedules, work roles, and cultural norms, Christie Green learned to hunt elk, turkey, deer, and other animals throughout her home state of New Mexico. Layer by layer, hunt by hunt, Green peels away societal skins that adhered to a prescribed grid, a manufactured tick of time, a picture of perfection. Tracking and tracing, moving in darkness, watching, smelling, listening, and following the animals, Green sheds the burdens of her domestic self and instead witnesses the animals defying reason as they walk her into their world, ambling her along, straddling night and day, waking and sleeping. Their ways of moving and sensing become her model. Through them, definitions of gender dissolve and boundaries blur. In the process, Green eclipses western society's definitions of her as a woman, mother, lover, and business owner in a male-dominated industry and ultimately finds independence, courage, and a profound connection to the animals and the places they call home. What she sought from these animals was food, but what she found was freedom.

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“Moonlight Elk is courageous, pro-woman prose that unfolds in the crucible of the natural world.”—Holly Morris, director of Exposure and author of Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for Women Who Are Changing the World “Green has the mind of a scientist and the heart of a poet. Her passion for the creatures she encounters and the land she wanders shines through every word.”—Janie Chodosh, coauthor of Wild Lives: Leading Conservationists on the Animals and the Planet They Love

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Christie Green is a landscape architect, an artist, a clothing designer, and the sole proprietor of radicle, a design-build firm that combines landscape, art, ecology, and activism. She lives on her small homestead in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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