Going Wild: On Kathryn Bromwich’s “At the Edge of the Woods” and Nan Shepherd’s “The Living Mountain”

At the Edge of the Woods is at once a feminist revenge fantasy, a fabulist tragedy, and a psychedelic paean to the wonders and blessings of the natural world. It might be best summarized, though, as the story of a barren individual—reproductively, but also metaphysically—regaining the ability to feel.