Demuth's novel Eyes of the Forest engages the greatest issues of our age without pretension through the eyes of both human and non-human life. Set in Canada's boreal forest, the fire lookouts, tree planters, loggers, and oil patch rounders inhabit a narrative that raises the stakes to Planet Earth itself. Here are women sketching their identities on the front lines of an ecological and ideological battle---robust, soulful, revolutionary women, harbingers of a new mythology.  Some of the men are lost or searching souls, ghosts of that dying culture of Adam's right to dominion.  At the heart of it all, a young man and a young woman struggle for a love as beautiful and precarious as the wilderness around them.  Passionate, exotic, and slightly apocalyptic, the novel challenges that American myth of "taming the West."
   
    "Demuth's novel is a breath of fresh air. Her prose is wonderfully descriptive and confident, an ode to nature in its primal form.  City dwellers such as myself are reminded of what we do not know about the wild, and what we are all at risk of losing in our shortsightedness."  ---New York's award winning author Kaylie Jones