Author Event: Christie Green & Erika Howsare

Name: Author Event: Christie Green & Erika Howsare
Start: 2025-04-17T19:00:00-04:00
Location: 5792 Three Notched Road , Crozet, VA, United States, Virginia 22932

Schedule

Thu, 17 Apr, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

5792 Three Notched Road , Crozet, VA, United States, Virginia 22932 | Crozet, VA

Join us for an evening with Christie Green, author of Moonlight Elk in conversation with Erika Howsare, author of The Age of Deer. Light beverages and snacks will be served.
“Moonlight Elk tracks the electric presence of a hunter who
‘burn(s) for belonging’ in the land and among the animals. . . This book will re-map your heart.”
—Erika Howsare, author of The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with Our Wild Neighbors
Christie Green learned to hunt in order to complement the food she grew in her New Mexico garden. As an act of practical agency this fulfilled her needs, yet a restlessness stirred within. She longed for a life defined by something deeper than weekly schedules, work roles, and cultural norms.
Outside the grip of the human realm, the moon beckoned to Green to go beyond. Here, hunting in the wild, the moon cycled through her, rising and falling at dawn and dusk, whispering messages from the dark side. Green began to attune to the more elusive, mysterious murmuration of the moon. Animals and dreams, lunar partners, choreographed Green through time and space. She longed to dream, toil, live and love at the edges of the fertile ecotones where she could withdraw inward, retreat like an animal into hiding, and then come into full, radiant view on her own terms.
In Moonlight Elk, Green peels away societal skins that adhere 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 witnesses the animals defying reason as they walk her into their world, ambling her along, straddling night and day, waking and sleeping. In the process, Green eclipses western society’s definitions of her as a woman, mother, lover, and entrepreneur, courageously birthing her own independence through a profound connection to the animals and the places they call home. What she sought from these animals was food. What she found was freedom.