A review by liberrydude
The Names of the Stars: A Life in the Wilds by Pete Fromm

5.0

Absolutely beautiful writing that weaves the wild, family, and our mortal coil together. It reminded me so much of Norman Maclean's The River Runs Through It and Other Stories except these were all true. Fromm mainly tells of his three week sabbatical from his family in the Bob Marshall Wilderness back in 2004. He signed up to babysit some fish eggs. He captures the solitude of being alone in the woods while pining for his young boys and family. In between this tale he alternates to the younger Fromm's adventures decades ago at Lake Mead, the Tetons, and Big Bend. We meet some real characters (stuff of legends) that if this was the naval service we would be calling these "sea stories." This belongs in the pantheon of literature on the West and life.