Julie Carrick Dalton & Tim W**d
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Gibson's Bookstore is thrilled to welcome Julie Carrick Dalton and Tim W**d as they present their new eco-fiction novels, The Forest Becomes Her and The Gatepost, respectively.
About THE FOREST BECOMES HER
Nature, civilization, and womanhood collide in The Forest Becomes Her.
In historic, bucolic Concord, Massachusetts, a centuries-old forest has been removed to make way for a new, eco-friendly housing development. The locals are upset by the destruction, but out-of-towners like Hazel Stoddard are flocking to put down roots in their new guilt-free dream homes.
Soon a tragedy leaves Hazel unmoored in her new life, and she begins to feel the pull of the absent forest. Hazel is not alone—her neighbors, real estate agent Stella Flint and teenage environmentalist Polly Bauer, each have their own traumas and their own relationship to the land. The three women are drawn together to save the last remaining oak tree, or they risk losing themselves to lingering shadows that only they can see.
In The Forest Becomes Her, Julie Carrick Dalton brings hope and reverence to this lush celebration of multigenerational female relationships, the ever-evolving female form, humanity’s connection to our changing world, and the mysteries that still exist in nature.
ABOUT THE GATEPOST
From the author of The Afterlife Project: One woman’s quest to find her vanished father pushes her beyond the boundaries of space, time, and the human mind.
Perfect for fans of adventurous speculative novels like Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi, Emily St. John Mandel’s Sea of Tranquility, and Richard Powers’s Bewilderment, Tim W**d’s The Gatepost blends modern science and ancient cosmology to take readers on a journey offering hallucinatory glimpses into worlds beyond our own.
Esme Weatherhead was twelve years old when her father, an amateur scientist and the author of a bestselling book on Mesoamerican shamanism, walked up into the forest on their rural Vermont property and never came back. Twenty years later, she quit her job in San Francisco, got divorced, and moved back home with the goal of writing a book about her father’s life and sudden vanishing.
In the course of her research, Esme uncovers an old field journal that describes a cave on the property she hadn’t known about, experiments involving high doses of psilocybin mushrooms, and a series of strangely vivid hallucinations. After searching unsuccessfully for the cave, she hires Lucas St. Pierre, a local geologist, to help her find it.
As they try to unravel the mystery of her father’s disappearance, Esme and Lucas must confront hidden forces that will test their sanity and put their safety at risk, ultimately leading to new insights about love, death, and the enduring resilience of life on Earth.
About the Authors
As a journalist, JULIE CARRICK DALTON has published more than a thousand articles in The Boston Globe, BusinessWeek, The Hollywood Reporter, Orion Magazine, Electric Literature, and other publications. A former beekeeper and organic farmer, she is a frequent speaker on the topic of writing fiction in the age of climate crisis and is a member of the teaching faculty at Drexel University’s MFA Program. When she isn’t reading, writing, or teaching, you can probably find her skiing, swimming, kayaking, working in her garden, or trying to keep track of her four children and two dogs.
TIM W**d is the author of three previous books of fiction. His recent novel, The Afterlife Project, was a best books of 2025 pick by Library Journal and the Toronto Star. A former international travel guide for National Geographic and other organizations, he serves on the core faculty of the Newport MFA in Creative Writing and is the cofounder of the Cuba Writers Program. Tim is the winner of multiple Writer’s Digest Popular Fiction Awards and his work has been shortlisted for the Forward INDIES Book of the Year Award, the Prism Prize in Climate Fiction, the Eric Hoffer Book Award, the Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction, the New Rivers Many Voices Project, the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Award for a Novel-in-Progress, and many others. His writing has appeared in Literary Hub, The Millions, The Writer’s Chronicle, The Revelator, and elsewhere. Tim lives in rural Vermont.
Gibson's Bookstore is thrilled to welcome Julie Carrick Dalton and Tim W**d as they present their new eco-fiction novels, The Forest Becomes Her and The Gatepost, respectively.
About THE FOREST BECOMES HER
Nature, civilization, and womanhood collide in The Forest Becomes Her.
In historic, bucolic Concord, Massachusetts, a centuries-old forest has been removed to make way for a new, eco-friendly housing development. The locals are upset by the destruction, but out-of-towners like Hazel Stoddard are flocking to put down roots in their new guilt-free dream homes.
Soon a tragedy leaves Hazel unmoored in her new life, and she begins to feel the pull of the absent forest. Hazel is not alone—her neighbors, real estate agent Stella Flint and teenage environmentalist Polly Bauer, each have their own traumas and their own relationship to the land. The three women are drawn together to save the last remaining oak tree, or they risk losing themselves to lingering shadows that only they can see.
In The Forest Becomes Her, Julie Carrick Dalton brings hope and reverence to this lush celebration of multigenerational female relationships, the ever-evolving female form, humanity’s connection to our changing world, and the mysteries that still exist in nature.
ABOUT THE GATEPOST
From the author of The Afterlife Project: One woman’s quest to find her vanished father pushes her beyond the boundaries of space, time, and the human mind.
Perfect for fans of adventurous speculative novels like Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi, Emily St. John Mandel’s Sea of Tranquility, and Richard Powers’s Bewilderment, Tim W**d’s The Gatepost blends modern science and ancient cosmology to take readers on a journey offering hallucinatory glimpses into worlds beyond our own.
Esme Weatherhead was twelve years old when her father, an amateur scientist and the author of a bestselling book on Mesoamerican shamanism, walked up into the forest on their rural Vermont property and never came back. Twenty years later, she quit her job in San Francisco, got divorced, and moved back home with the goal of writing a book about her father’s life and sudden vanishing.
In the course of her research, Esme uncovers an old field journal that describes a cave on the property she hadn’t known about, experiments involving high doses of psilocybin mushrooms, and a series of strangely vivid hallucinations. After searching unsuccessfully for the cave, she hires Lucas St. Pierre, a local geologist, to help her find it.
As they try to unravel the mystery of her father’s disappearance, Esme and Lucas must confront hidden forces that will test their sanity and put their safety at risk, ultimately leading to new insights about love, death, and the enduring resilience of life on Earth.
About the Authors
As a journalist, JULIE CARRICK DALTON has published more than a thousand articles in The Boston Globe, BusinessWeek, The Hollywood Reporter, Orion Magazine, Electric Literature, and other publications. A former beekeeper and organic farmer, she is a frequent speaker on the topic of writing fiction in the age of climate crisis and is a member of the teaching faculty at Drexel University’s MFA Program. When she isn’t reading, writing, or teaching, you can probably find her skiing, swimming, kayaking, working in her garden, or trying to keep track of her four children and two dogs.
TIM W**d is the author of three previous books of fiction. His recent novel, The Afterlife Project, was a best books of 2025 pick by Library Journal and the Toronto Star. A former international travel guide for National Geographic and other organizations, he serves on the core faculty of the Newport MFA in Creative Writing and is the cofounder of the Cuba Writers Program. Tim is the winner of multiple Writer’s Digest Popular Fiction Awards and his work has been shortlisted for the Forward INDIES Book of the Year Award, the Prism Prize in Climate Fiction, the Eric Hoffer Book Award, the Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction, the New Rivers Many Voices Project, the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Award for a Novel-in-Progress, and many others. His writing has appeared in Literary Hub, The Millions, The Writer’s Chronicle, The Revelator, and elsewhere. Tim lives in rural Vermont.
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