Appraisals by Boyles, Claire
Appraisals by Boyles, Claire

Appraisals

Maggie Brandt, a third-generation farmer, is cultivating a few acres of organic vegetables in rural Colorado--a place...
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Author: Claire Boyles
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Appraisals by Boyles, Claire

Appraisals

$35.98
Appraisals by Boyles, Claire

Appraisals

$35.98
Author: Claire Boyles
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description

Maggie Brandt, a third-generation farmer, is cultivating a few acres of organic vegetables in rural Colorado--a place where industrial farming reigns supreme--when the Great Recession hits. After months of unemployment, her husband, Fish, takes a job with an oil and gas company, a decision that threatens their once happy marriage and alienates their teenage daughter, Ozzie, a budding environmental crusader. As the wider community organizes against a billionaire outsider who is buying farmland and, more worryingly, water rights in the moisture-starved county, Maggie's grandmother Flora grapples with the painful echoes of her own past. Flora and Ozzie's already close bond deepens as they join a local activist group, but Fish and Maggie's conflicting approaches to surviving circumstances that are out of their control drive them further apart. Faced with intolerable layers of loss, each member of the family is forced to consider what they are willing to compromise and what they are, or are not, able to forgive.

At once tender and urgent, Appraisals is a moving portrayal of ecological and financial catastrophe, the powerful generational bonds between women, and the fierce impulse to protect the places we love.



Author: Claire Boyles
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 08/04/2026
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780393531800


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/01/2026
Library Journal 07/01/2026 pg. 51
Booklist 07/01/2026
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2026

About the Author
Boyles, Claire: - Claire Boyles is a writer and former farmer. A 2022 Whiting Award winner in fiction, she is the author of Appraisals and Site Fidelity, which won the High Plains Book Award and was longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Award, the Colorado Book Award, and the Reading the West Award. Her nonfiction has appeared in Sierra Magazine and Virginia Quarterly Review, among other journals, and she is a screenwriter with multiple credits on the Hallmark Channel. She splits time between Loveland, Colorado and Ames, Iowa, where she is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and the Environment at Iowa State University.
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