Against The Grain

Praise for Lâle Davidson

“Against the Grain combines gorgeous poetry and romance with heart-stopping action, as the daughter of a rich CEO joins forces with a logger’s son to stop a huge lumber company from destroying an ancient redwood forest. The trees themselves become surprisingly powerful characters in this rich, multilayered novel. After reading Against the Grain, you’ll never look at a tree in the same way again.”

“Against the GrainAgainst the Grain, —Matt Witten, bestselling author of The Necklace

The Necklace

"I found the story quite enthralling. Lâle Davidson does a remarkable job of capturing the moods and rhythms of a very special time and place."

—Larry Livermore, Spy Rock Memories, publisher of Lookout magazine, and veteran of Redwood Summer.

Spy Rock MemoriesLookout

"...vividly illustrates the truth of that old North Coast adage: If trees could talk, nothing short of chainsaws could quiet them."

—Hank Sims, editor of Lost Coast Outpost

Lost Coast Outpost

The dramatic confrontations of 1990"s Redwood Summer surge to life in Lale Davidson"s bracingly imagined eco-novel, which somehow manages, despite its heady pace, to educate the reader on why trees matter, how they grow, and what they do for us -- if we dare to let them. Vivid with charismatic characters, steeped in environmental history and the conflicts that defined a difficult and bitter time, Against the Grain sticks with hope and takes the long view, not unlike the thousand-year-old towering giants at the heart of this rich yarn.

Against the Grain—Amy Godine, independent scholar; curator, Dreaming of Timbuctoo exhibition, John Brown Farm, North Elba, NY; long-time writer for Adirondack Life.

Against the Grain is satisfying as a thriller, as a poem to the environment, and as a love story. The richness of the characters’ relationships with the forest and trees is inspiring, and the plant kingdoms’ communications — and use of Sanskrit — was magical. In these family dynamics, politics is made personal, and finding purpose is a tool for healing. I couldn’t put the book down.

Against the Grain—Peter Ferko, author of The Genius of Yoga and Incarnation.

The Genius of YogaIncarnation.