Memories, like pressed flowers, in a diary by a budding author juggling literary sensibilities and a chainsaw!

It's back-to-school time! Anouk Lejczyk invites readers to follow her into the woods for a unique experience: learning to be a lumberjack!
For months, she inures her body to winter's chill and summer's heat, aches and pains and the nonstop jolting of machines. The whole time, she keeps a faithful diary.
Moving, funny, vivid, and poetic, Wood Shavings is also the intimate story of a young woman finding herself and meeting others: casualties of life disillusioned with the world, nostalgic for yesterday and fearful of tomorrow. These encounters give her chance to discuss everything from sexism to intersexuality, hunting and animal suffering, economy and the environment, racism and tolerance.