When is a Man clam and the wild beyond

and the wild beyond

apparently drowned in a canoe accident

whose cooperation was essential to her success in the shadowy world she inhabited

and autumn welcomes an explosion of mushrooms

When is a Man clam and the wild beyondPaul Rasmussen is a young ethnographer and academic recovering from prostate cancer. Broken, he retreats to the remote forests and towns of the Immitoin Valley. As an outsider, he discovers how difficult it is to know a place, let alone become a part of it. Then, a drowned man and a series of encounters with the locals force him to confront the valleys troubled past and his own uncertain future. As Paul turns his attention to the families displaced