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Alissa York is the award-winning author

of the novels The Naturalist, Fauna,

Effigy and Mercy, and the fiction

collection Any Given Power. She has

just been appointed full-time faculty at

the Humber School for Writers. In The

Naturalist, a young 19th-century Quaker

woman discovers an awakened affinity for the natural world while travelling along the

Amazon.