A review by chrislatray
Querencia by Stephen J. Bodio

5.0

I've had this book for years and then apparently lost it, as I learned when my friend, the writer Malcolm Brooks, who provides the introduction to the edition I've just finished, was looking for a copy to send to someone else. Now, some weeks (or months, who can tell anymore) later, it appears at the used bookstore and I snap it up and read it. Everything I've heard about it is true: it is a beautiful work of nature writing, life writing, love writing.

I come away with this. Love the world and revel in it. Live in it. And if you love someone, or someone loves you, and you are a smoker ... please stop now, before it's too late.