The searing debut novel of poet and writer anne coray, lost mountain is an impassioned story of love, loss, environment, and politics against a landscape facing threat of destruction. Anne coray, the author of three poetry collections, has brought her observational and writing skills to fiction that demonstrates both her attention to language and her passion for her home place. . . Lost mountain is many things: a love story between the two main characters, a portrait of a small and isolated community, a mystery, a paean to salmon and lives that surround salmon, a not-very-disguised critique of a megamine project, and an example of eco-fiction--environmentally conscious literature. --Anchorage daily newswhen news of an open-pit mining project hits the remote alaskan hometown of whetstone cove, young widow dehlia melven barely takes in the town's nervous chatter.The ziggurat corporation promises the mine will be fifteen times larger than all the mines in alaska combined, but dehlia's thoughts are consumed by the loss of her late husband and the future of her security.At least the new arrival of solar energy expert alan lamb brings a distraction and a different dynamic to the small community--one that's surprisingly more interesting than expected. For alan, whetstone cove offers a fresh start to a job away from all the bureaucracy and politics he'd been running away from.Plus, there's dehlia, the beautiful and enigmatic artist who begins to occupy more and more of alan's tho...