{"product_id":"mourners-bestiary","title":"Mourner's Bestiary","description":"\u003cb\u003eA critically-acclaimed literary memoir braiding together environmental research and the personal journey of generational healing, grief, and chronic illness.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eCaffall brilliantly parallels her family's suffering with large-scale ecological upheaval, maintaining a flicker of hope for the future in both cases. This deserves a wide readership.\"\u003c\/i\u003e Publisher's Weekly Starred Review\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAuthor Eiren Caffall is the inheritor of a family legacy of two hundred years of genetic kidney disease and the mother of a child who may inherit that legacy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA literary memoir on loss, chronic illness, and generational healing, Caffall's \u003ci\u003eThe Mourner's Bestiary\u003c\/i\u003e is also a meditation on grief and survival told through the stories of animals in two collapsing marine ecosystems--the Gulf of Maine and the Long Island Sound--and the lives of a family facing a life-threatening illness on their shores. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Gulf of Maine is the world's fastest-warming marine ecosystem, and the Long Island Sound has been the site of conservation battles that predict the fights ahead for the Gulf. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Beguiling, idiosyncratic [...] Caffall writes with plangent intensity about our responsibility toward the planet, and her eye for the wonder and beauty of ocean life pierces the illusion of disconnected existence.\" ? \u003ci\u003eWhiting Creative Nonfiction Grant judges citation\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Eiren Caffall has produced some of the most powerful writing on the ecological crisis I have read anywhere. Caffall is a gifted writer, and this book is strong medicine.\" ? Naomi Klein, author, social activist, and filmmaker","brand":"Eiren Caffall","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46336108069100,"sku":"9781955905589","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781955905589.jpg?v=1743668190","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/mourners-bestiary","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}