Caroline Tracey: Salt Lakes — An Unnatural History
UC Berkeley geographer and New Yorker contributor Caroline Tracey explores salt lake ecosystems, what their decline reveals about identity, environment, and loss.
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Location Tattered Cover Colfax Denver, US
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Why we picked this
Nature writing at its most lyrical and urgent — Tracey turns imperiled salt lakes into a lens for understanding how landscapes shape the people who live near them.
Caroline Tracey holds a PhD in geography from UC Berkeley, and her writing appears in The New Yorker and New York Review of Books. Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History is part love letter to a strange ecosystem and part personal odyssey into questions of identity and belonging.
The book explores these imperiled landscapes, places most people drive past without a second look, and reveals what their decline tells us about our relationship to the natural world. For a Colorado audience, the resonance with the region’s own water politics and vanishing landscapes runs deep.