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May's Book of the Month: Weathering the climate crisis

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“Shelter and Storm: At Home in the Driftless” is a collection of 12 essays drawing on Madison-based author Tamara Dean’s outdoors-focused upbringing. Her childhood experiences inspired her eco-conscious life in the Driftless Area’s Vernon County, where she lived for 15 years. Dean takes on the climate crisis, the shifting landscape of our farm country and divisive politics as she offers ideas for living a sustainable, small-scale, biodiverse life.

Dean’s nonfiction and fiction work has appeared in numerous literary journals, as well as a previous book on sustainable living. Dean will discuss the new book (out April 2025 from University of Minnesota Press) at the UW Arboretum on April 24.

Maggie Ginsberg is a contributing writer to Madison Magazine.

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Maggie Ginsberg is a senior editor at Madison Magazine and author of the novel “Still True,” winner of the WLA Literary Award for Fiction.

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