The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
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A Year of Noticing the Natural World
Margaret Renkl's The Comfort of Crows follows a single year through fifty two short, weekly chapters, opening with a crow seen on New Year's Day and closing with bluebirds in December. Set mostly in her own Tennessee backyard, the book pairs close observation of birds, insects and plants with reflections on grief, hope and the wider ecological losses of our time.
Original illustrations by the ...
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A Year of Noticing the Natural World
Margaret Renkl's The Comfort of Crows follows a single year through fifty two short, weekly chapters, opening with a crow seen on New Year's Day and closing with bluebirds in December. Set mostly in her own Tennessee backyard, the book pairs close observation of birds, insects and plants with reflections on grief, hope and the wider ecological losses of our time.
Original illustrations by the author's brother, Billy Renkl, appear throughout, and short praise song interludes punctuate the seasonal chapters with quieter, more meditative moments.
Renkl is a New York Times contributing opinion writer and the author of Late Migrations. This book suits readers who enjoy nature writing with emotional depth, in the tradition of a seasonal journal rather than a straightforward field guide.
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