We Loved It All, Lydia Millet
We Loved It All, Lydia Millet
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We Loved It All
A Memory of Life

Author: Lydia Millet

Narrator: Xe Sands

Unabridged: 7 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/02/2024

Synopsis

Acclaimed novelist Lydia Millet’s first work of nonfiction is a genre-defying tour de force that makes an impassioned argument for people to see their emotional and spiritual lives as infinitely dependent on the lives of nonhuman beings. Drawing on a quarter-century of experience as an advocate for endangered species at the Center for Biological Diversity, Millet offers intimate portraits of what she calls “the others”—the extraordinary animals with whom we still share the world, along with those already lost. Humans, too, fill this book, as Millet touches on the lives of her world-traveling parents, fascinating partners and friends, and colorful relatives, from diplomats to nut farmers—all figures in the complex tapestry each of us weaves with the surrounding world. Written in the tradition of Annie Dillard or Robert Macfarlane, We Loved It All is an incantatory work that will appeal to anyone concerned about the future of life on earth—including our own.

About Lydia Millet

Lydia Millet is the PEN Award-winning author of eleven works of literary fiction, including Sweet Lamb of Heaven and Magnificence, which have been New York Times Notables and Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalists. She lives in Arizona.

About Xe Sands

Xe Sands is an Earphones award-winning narrator known for her authentic characterizations and intimate delivery. She has more than a decade of experience bringing stories to life through narration, performance, and visual art and has recorded more than two hundred titles. She has also been recognized for her engaging romance narrations.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Krista on November 27, 2023

Maybe we haven’t spoken up for the others partly because of the unconscious, innate quality of our ties with them. Possibly we need the telescopic view — the distance of forgetting and the jolt of recognition as a remembrance surfaces — to know what we adore. Maybe we can only look back in longin......more

Goodreads review by Kristen on February 14, 2024

This book was all over the place. While I did enjoy the stories and facts, reading them felt like being trapped in a room with a class full of students all waiting to tell you a story that has nothing to do with the lesson.......more

Goodreads review by AndiReads on January 18, 2024

Huge Lydia Millet fan and couldn't wait to grab this up and peer into her thoughts. A very personal series of essays, Millet intertwines her own story amongst that of conservationist. Her experience and training is vast, as she studied at the Center for Biological Diversity in Tucson, She actually ut......more

Goodreads review by Sherrie on April 17, 2024

***I won this book in a Goodreads Giveaway*** I'm not sure what the author was trying to do here. It's ostensibly a collection of essays, but there is no coherent theme and even within a single essay the author jumps from topic to topic in a way that I found disjointed and hard to follow. Topics incl......more

Goodreads review by Kim on February 08, 2024

A beautifully crafted love letter to nature by way of Lydia Millet's personal experiences in the natural world. Millet dissects our fascination and deep rooted relationship with animals from childhood picture books using animals with human characteristics to teach to adults shaping the animal world......more

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