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The Comfort of Crows
A Backyard Year
Author: Margaret Renkl
Narrator: Margaret Renkl
Unabridged: 7 hr 48 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau by Spotify Audiobooks
Published: 10/24/2023
Category: Nature - Seasons
Synopsis
From New York Timesopinion writer and bestselling author Margaret Renkl comes a “howling love letter to the world” (Ann Patchett): a luminous book tracing the passing of seasons, personal and natural. In The Comfort of Crows, Margaret Renkl presents a devotional of sorts: fifty-two essays that follow the creatures and plants in her backyard over the course of a year. As we movethrough the seasons—from a crow spied on New Year’s Day, its resourcefulness and sense of community setting a theme for the year—what develops is a portrait of joy and grief. Joy at the ongoing pleasures of the natural world: “Until the very last cricket fallssilent, the beauty-besotted will always find a reason to love the world.” And grief at a shifting climate, at winters that end too soon, at songbirds growing 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 flowersevoke generations past. The city and the country where Renkl raised her family to transform a little more with every passing day. How can one person make a difference amid such destabilizing changes? The Comfort of Crowsis a lovely and deeply movingaudiobook from a beloved writer.