Throughout her career, author Sally Cole-Misch has advocated for progressive environmental conservation and policy, urging people to recognise the value of nature in their lives in order to protect it. This passion and appreciation for the natural world comes through in her immersive debut novel The Best Part of Us (on sale September 8, She Writes Press), a Where the Crawdad Sings for the Great Lakes region.
After a young woman discovers Native artifacts on her family’s island, which was purchased from the Ojibwe by her Welsh grandfather in the 1940’s, a dispute coupled with a storm sets in motion decades of family turmoil and secrecy. The Best Part of Us is an exquisite ode to the essential and inherent roles that family, nature, and place hold in all of our lives.