Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
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Praise for Margaret Renkl’s Late Migrations “Beautifully written, masterfully structured, and brimming with insight into the natural world, Late Migrations can claim its place alongside Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and A Death in the Family. It has the makings of an American classic.â€Â―Ann Patchett, author of Commonwealth '[Margaret Renkl] is the most beautiful writer! I love this book. It's about the South, and growing up there, and about her love of nature and animals and her wonderful family.' ―Reese Witherspoon 'A perfect book to read in the summer . . . This is the kind of writing that makes me want to just stay put, reread and savor everything about that moment.' ―Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air “A compact glory, crosscutting between consummate family memoir and keenly observed backyard natural history. Renkl’s deft juxtapositions close up the gap between humans and nonhumans and revive our lost kinship with other living things.â€Â―Richard Powers, author of The Overstory 'Magnificent . . . Conjure your favorite place in the natural world: beach, mountain, lake, forest, porch, windowsill rooftop? Precisely there is the best place in which to savor this book.' ―NPR.org 'Late Migrations has echoes of Annie Dillard's The Writing Life―with grandparents, sons, dogs and birds sharing the spotlight, it's a witty, warm and unaccountably soothing all-American story.' ―People '[Renkl] guides us through a South lush with bluebirds, pecan orchards, and glasses of whiskey shared at dusk in this collection of prose in poetry-size bits; as it celebrates bounty, it also mourns the profound losses we face every day.' ―O, the Oprah Magazine 'Graceful . . . like a belated answer to [E.B.] White.' ―Wall Street Journal 'A lovely collection of essays about life, nature, and family. It will make you laugh, cry―and breathe more deeply.' ―Parade Magazine “This warm, rich memoir might be the sleeper of the summer. [Renkl] grew up in the South, nursed her aging parents, and never once lost her love for life, light, and the natural world. Beautiful is the word, beautiful all the way through.â€Â―Philadelphia Inquirer 'Like the spirituality of Krista Tippett's On Being meets the brevity of Joe Brainard . . . The miniature essays in Late Migrations approach with modesty, deliver bittersweet epiphanies, and feel like small doses of religion.'―Literary Hub 'In her poignant debut, a memoir, Renkl weaves together observations from her current home in Nashville and short vignettes of nature and growing up in the South.―Garden & Gun “Renkl feels the lives and struggles of each creature that enters her yard as keenly as she feels the paths followed by her mother, grandmother, her people. Learning to accept the sometimes harsh, always lush natural world may crack open a window to acceptance of our own losses. In Late Migrations,
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