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  • Biography
  • 2023
  • First edition.

The comfort of crows

a backyard year

Margaret Renkl

Billy Renkl

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"In The Comfort of Crows, Margaret Renkl presents a literary devotional: fifty-two chapters that follow the creatures and plants in her backyard over the course of a year. As we move through the seasons-from a crow spied on New Year's Day, its resourcefulness and sense of community setting a theme for the year, to the lingering bluebirds of December, revisiting the nest box they used in spring-what develops is a portrait of joy and grief: joy in the ongoing pleasures of the natural world, and grief over winters that end too soon and songbirds that grow 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 flowers evoke generations past. The city and the country where Renkl raised her family transform a little more with each passing day. And the natural world, now in visible flux, requires every ounce of hope and commitment from the author-and from us."--

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Title Statement The comfort of crows: a backyard year / Margaret Renkl ; art by Billy Renkl.
Author Renkl, Margaret
Additional Contributors Renkl, Billy
Publication New York: Spiegel and Grau,2023.
Edition First edition.
Extent of Item xvi, 269 pages
ISBN 9781954118461 (hardcover)
Other Number pr07215868
Contents Winter --Spring --Summer --Fall.
Summary "In The Comfort of Crows, Margaret Renkl presents a literary devotional: fifty-two chapters that follow the creatures and plants in her backyard over the course of a year. As we move through the seasons-from a crow spied on New Year's Day, its resourcefulness and sense of community setting a theme for the year, to the lingering bluebirds of December, revisiting the nest box they used in spring-what develops is a portrait of joy and grief: joy in the ongoing pleasures of the natural world, and grief over winters that end too soon and songbirds that grow 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 flowers evoke generations past. The city and the country where Renkl raised her family transform a little more with each passing day. And the natural world, now in visible flux, requires every ounce of hope and commitment from the author-and from us."--
Subjects & Genres
By Topic Animals
Backyard gardens
Natural history
Nature observation
Nature
Seasons
By Name Renkl, Margaret
By Genre Autobiographies
Essays
Personal narratives
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