Weller Book Works is excited to celebrate two debut books by two Utah favorites, Kase Johnstun and Rob Carney. In Accidental Gardens by Rob Carney, the essays are impressed by the natural world, and unimpressed by politics. They are at home in the American West but aware of the whole earth, all its landscapes and animals and magic, but also its fragility since so many of its human inhabitants are reckless and absurd. Let the Wild Grasses Grow chronicles the lives of Della Chavez and John Cordova, childhood friends separated by a tragic accident, who find each other again during World War II after leading separate lives of struggle.