Good Reads

// By jim mahaffie

ICONIC SKIERS 
The Arc of Skiing Jackson Hole—45 Years Behind the Lens 
Wade McKoy 

Jackson Hole photographer Wade McKoy selected more than 500 images taken over four decades of “the Golden Age of skiing” for this volume. “My hope is that this book finds a permanent place in people’s homes and offices, something to enjoy and revisit for years. I want it to keep pulling viewers and readers back in like it does to me,” says McKoy. 

DARK COMEDY 
Family Reunion (Charon Family Adventure Book 1)
Rod Pennington

In the first in a five-book series by Jackson-based writer Rod Pennington, action, adventure, humor, and mystery combine for ex-CIA operative Michael Charon and his quirky, dysfunctional family—who also happen to be fellow assassins. 

MEMOIR
Fi, A Memoir of My Son
Alexandra Fuller 

Fi was the nickname for Fuller’s son, Charles Fuller Ross, who died suddenly at age 21 in 2018. Fi was raised in our area, and this beautiful book recounts Fuller’s journey to get back on an even keel after losing him. It takes her from a sheep wagon in Wyoming to a sanctuary in New Mexico and a silent retreat in Canada. It’s deep, disarming, and unexpectedly funny. Fuller also wrote The New York Times bestselling memoirs Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight and Scribbling the Cat, among other works.

MOUNTAIN TOWN TRUTHS
Jackson Hole: Uneasy Eden 
Warren Adler

These very relatable but fictional short stories capture the impacts tourists and newcomers have on a mountain resort town. The author was a longtime resident of Jackson who passed away in 2019 after years of gathering these poignant and powerful reflections of what he saw and felt as more and more new folks arrived in the Tetons. Among his many accomplishments, Adler helped found the Jackson Hole Writers Conference and was the chairman of the board of trustees of the Teton County Public Library. JH