Books by Miles Wilson

"A lusty environmental picaresque, McKenzie Rising satirizes our shortfalls while celebrating our resilience and the triumph of community. As an instrument of social critique, satire operates on the premise that human folly is correctable. McKenzie Rising is intended as a spirited corrective to some of the amendable follies we lug with us as we careen on into the (post)-Trump, (post)-Corona years"--

This novel is set on a US Forest Service firefighting crew stationed in Southern California in the mid-1960s. In its fidelity to the physical, emotional, and social world of the crews, Fire Season offers an account of the fiery intersection of the human and the natural world-an ongoing encounter that has decisively shaped the natural history-and, therefore, the human history-of the West.