Category: Environment/Nature/Ag

Valerie, a 42-year-old nurse, burnt out by round-the-clock care for dying Covid patients during the height of the epidemic, decides to hike the Appalachian Trail. Two hundred miles from her destination in Maine, she disappears. Bev Miller, a Lieutenant in the Fish and Wildlife service is in charge of search and rescue operations. Far away, at a computer in Connecticut, a 76-year-old forager living in a wheelchair in a retirement home, sits at her computer and ponders the lost Valerie, who is now regionally important news.