A critically-acclaimed literary memoir braiding together environmental research and the personal journey of generational healing, grief, and chronic illness. "Caffall brilliantly parallels her familys suffering with large-scale ecological upheaval, maintaining a flicker of hope for the future in both casesThis deserves a wide readership." Publisher''s Weekly Starred ReviewAuthor Eiren Caffall is the inheritor of a family legacy of two hundred years of genetic kidney disease and the mother of a child who may inherit that legacy.
A literary memoir on loss, chronic illness, and generational healing, Caffalls
The Mourners Bestiary is also a meditation on grief and survival told through the stories of animals in two collapsing marine ecosystemsthe Gulf of Maine and the Long Island Soundand the lives of a family facing a life-threatening illness on their shores.
The Gulf of Maine is the worlds fastest-warming marine ecosystem, and the Long Island Sound has been the site of conservation battles that predict the fights ahead for the Gulf.
"Beguiling, idiosyncratic [...] Caffall writes with plangent intensity about our responsibility toward the planet, and her eye for the wonder and beauty of ocean life pierces the illusion of disconnected existence." ?
Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant judges citation "Eiren Caffall has produced some of the most powerful writing on the ecological crisis I have read anywhereCaffall is a gifted writer, and this book is strong medicine." ? Naomi Klein, author, social activist, and filmmaker
| Format |
Inbunden |
| Omfång |
294 sidor |
| Språk |
Engelska |
| Förlag |
Row House Publishing |
| Utgivningsdatum |
2024-11-25 |
| ISBN |
9781955905589 |
