Review of Yellow Pine by Claire Way Watkins – A messy portrait of protest subculture Imagination
RDew, the protagonist of Claire Way Watkins’ latest novel, has retreated from the world to live in Nothingness Flats, a cinder-block cabin in the Nevada desert. On indefinite leave from her job at an environmental organization, Rose works on her Al-Anon recovery, goes hiking and joins the protests against Yellow Pine of the title: a