A Year with the Seals

Splendid, warm, and exhaustively researched… Morris shares poignant and revelatory stories. Some are tragic. Some are frustrating. Some are funny. Some are sweet. Just listen. All these stories contain truth. – Sy Montgomery, New York Times-bestselling author of The Soul of an OctopusFull of heart, zest, and honesty, A Year with the Seals explores our troubled and joyous relationships with seals. Morris refuses to tell us what to think, but guides us to see this story from more than just one angle. A treat of a book that I raced my way through. – Chantal Lyons, author of GroundbreakersAs soon as Alix Morris introduced me to a talking seal with a Boston accent, I was hooked. A Year with the Seals is full of colorful characters both human and aquatic. Once you start reading this intriguing book, you might have a hard time putting it down. – Leigh Ann Henion, New York Times-bestselling author of Phenomenal and Night MagicA fascinating deep dive with the seals of North America. In breathtaking detail, Morris shows us what it’s like to be a seal, while revealing the beauty and challenges of living among these magnetic creatures. When we look out at the ocean, bottlenose dolphins seem to get all the love. Move over, Flipper. Make way for Hoover, the Talking Seal. – Joe Roman, author of Eat, Poop, DieA Year with Seals is a must read for anyone who has ever been enthralled by the sight of a seal’s winsome face popping out of the water or wondered about our fascination with them. Writing with insight and humor, Morris develops a complex conservation story, revealing the challenges facing all animals adapting to life in the Anthropocene. This beautifully researched book asks not whether or how to control the natural world, but perhaps the most important question of all: how we might learn to control ourselves. – Leila Philip, New York Times-bestselling author of Beaverland

Alix Morris is a science writer in midcoast Maine. Her work has appeared in the Boston Globe Magazine, Smithsonian, Sierra Magazine, MIT Technology Review, Down East Magazine, and elsewhere, and she has graduate degrees in science writing from MIT and global health from Johns Hopkins. Her first book, A Year with the Seals, is supported by a grant from the Sloan Foundation.