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Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love…
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Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss (editie 2021)

door Margaret Renkl (Auteur)

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Family & Relationships. Nature. Nonfiction. HTML:From the New York Times columnist, a portrait of a family and the cycles of joy and grief that mark the natural world: "Has the makings of an American classic." â??Ann Patchett
Growing up in Alabama, Margaret Renkl was a devoted reader, an explorer of riverbeds and red-dirt roads, and a fiercely loved daughter. Here, in brief essays, she traces a tender and honest portrait of her complicated parentsâ??her exuberant, creative mother; her steady, supportive fatherâ??and of the bittersweet moments that accompany a child's transition to caregiver.
And here, braided into the overall narrative, Renkl offers observations on the world surrounding her suburban Nashville home. Ringing with rapture and heartache, these essays convey the dignity of bluebirds and rat snakes, monarch butterflies and native bees. As these two threads haunt and harmonize with each other, Renkl suggests that there is astonishment to be found in common things: in what seems ordinary, in what we all share. For in both worldsâ??the natural one and our ownâ??"the shadow side of love is always loss, and grief is only love's own twin."
Gorgeously illustrated by the author's brother, Billy Renkl, Late Migrations is an assured and memorable debut.
"Magnificent . . . Readers will savor each page and the many gems of wisdom they contain." â??Publishers Weekly
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Titel:Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
Auteurs:Margaret Renkl (Auteur)
Info:Milkweed Editions (2021), Edition: Illustrated, 248 pages
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Just like The Comfort of Crows, Late Migrations dives right into deaths of animals
followed by the "pond is dying" - the starling hanging itself, dead dog...

WE GET IT! Without Death, there is no Life, yet do readers need to know this on every other page?!?

How about trying: Let's Love and Enjoy Life Without the constant reminders of Death...?

She shows compassion only for certain creatures.
She does not lower herself to the soil to try to comprehend the beauty and insights of the rest.
She offers nothing for the mealworms who tuck themselves around her fingers,
hoping she will save them from her determined fate.

I gave up with their dead cockatiel pet and skimmed the balance of the rest: "monstrous in death...." ( )
  m.belljackson | Apr 20, 2024 |
I liked this a lot and plan to read the author's other books. I liked reading the stories about nature, and the stories about her family. ( )
  franoscar | Mar 12, 2024 |
I have read Margaret Renkl’s nature-themed essays in the NYT for years, so i was interested in reading one of her books. This book consists of brief essays covering 2 themes: observations of nature, and end-of-life issues within her own family. Margaret grew up in Alabama, and currently writes about her life in Tennessee. Lovely, peaceful reading. I very much appreciate her perspective on life, both human and otherwise. ( )
  peggybr | Feb 3, 2024 |
Wish I could give it ten stars. It's a beautiful book and Margaret Renkl is an amazing writer. ( )
  dhenn31 | Jan 24, 2024 |
A book of brief chapters, stories, anecdotes, about a family’s life and loss.
Written by someone from Alabama and Tennessee, so that much of the wildlife is alien to me, but the clarity of the observations are easily transferable to my neck of the woods and joyful to read. ( )
  CarltonC | Jul 31, 2023 |
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Family & Relationships. Nature. Nonfiction. HTML:From the New York Times columnist, a portrait of a family and the cycles of joy and grief that mark the natural world: "Has the makings of an American classic." â??Ann Patchett
Growing up in Alabama, Margaret Renkl was a devoted reader, an explorer of riverbeds and red-dirt roads, and a fiercely loved daughter. Here, in brief essays, she traces a tender and honest portrait of her complicated parentsâ??her exuberant, creative mother; her steady, supportive fatherâ??and of the bittersweet moments that accompany a child's transition to caregiver.
And here, braided into the overall narrative, Renkl offers observations on the world surrounding her suburban Nashville home. Ringing with rapture and heartache, these essays convey the dignity of bluebirds and rat snakes, monarch butterflies and native bees. As these two threads haunt and harmonize with each other, Renkl suggests that there is astonishment to be found in common things: in what seems ordinary, in what we all share. For in both worldsâ??the natural one and our ownâ??"the shadow side of love is always loss, and grief is only love's own twin."
Gorgeously illustrated by the author's brother, Billy Renkl, Late Migrations is an assured and memorable debut.
"Magnificent . . . Readers will savor each page and the many gems of wisdom they contain." â??Publishers Weekly

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