Terry Tempest Williams is the author of the upcoming book Finding Beauty in a Broken World: A Mosaic. Always an impassioned and farsighted advocate for a just relationship between humankind and the natural world, Williams has broadened her concerns over the last few years to encompass a redefined sense of family, community, and species. It is this change that compels her search for “beauty in a broken world.” She begins in Ravenna, Italy, where “jeweled ceilings become lavish tales” through the art of mosaic. She returns to the American southwest, her physical and spiritual home, where, observing a clan of prairie dogs on the brink of extinction, she apprehends a primal definition of community. And finally, she travels to a small town in Rwanda, where she helps to build a memorial to the victims of the 1994 genocide and begins to sense the healing and richness of experience inherent in acceptance.