A Book of Simple Living: Brief Notes from the Hills David J. Voelker Winner of the 2024 Edgar

Winner of the 2024 Edgar Award for Best Novel

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A Book of Simple Living: Brief Notes from the Hills David J. Voelker Winner of the 2024 Edgar'Mist fills the Himalayan valleys, and monsoon rain sweeps across the hills. Sometimes, during the day, a bird visits me a deep purple whistling thrush. She perches on the window sill, and looks out with me at the rain.' This personal diary records the many small moments that constitute a life of harmony with the self, the natural world, and friends, family and passersby. In these pages, we watch a wild plum blossom and the moon come up between two