The Comfort of Crows is a beautiful love letter to nature and the world around us, with original color art throughout. It is a literary devotional that follows the creatures and plants in the author's backyard over the course of a year, exploring joy and grief, the changing rhythms of a human life, and the natural world's need for hope and commitment.

Format: Hardback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 07 December 2023
Publisher: Random House USA Inc

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THE PERFECT GIFT FOR NATURE LOVERS,BIRDERS,AND GARDENERS,WITH ORIGINAL COLOR ART THROUGHOUT

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From the beloved New York Times opinion writer: a luminous book that traces the passing of seasons, both personal and natural.

In The Comfort of Crows, Margaret Renkl presents a literary devotional: fifty-two chapters that follow the creatures and plants in her backyard over the course of a year.

As we move through the seasons—from a crow spied on New Year's Day, its resourcefulness and sense of community setting a theme for the year, to the lingering bluebirds of December, revisiting the nest box they used in spring—what develops is a portrait of joy and grief: joy in the ongoing pleasures of the natural world, and grief over winters that end too soon and songbirds that grow fewer and fewer.

Along the way, we also glimpse the changing rhythms of a human life. Grown children, unexpectedly home during the pandemic, prepare to depart once more. Birdsong and night-blooming flowers evoke generations past. The city and the country where Renkl raised her family transform a little more with each passing day. And the natural world, now in visible flux, requires every ounce of hope and commitment from the author—and from us. For, as Renkl writes, “radiant things are bursting forth in the darkest places, in the smallest nooks and deepest cracks of the hidden world.”

With fifty-two original color artworks by the author's brother, Billy Renkl, The Comfort of Crows is a lovely and deeply moving book from a cherished observer of the natural world.

Weight: 500g
Dimension: 216 x 148 x 26 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781954118461