Something in the Woods Loves You
$31.64
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
15 December 2026
Summary
A “poignant meditation on surviving the darkest recesses of human nature … a lyrical love letter to how ‘imaginative empathy’ heals and harmonizes our relationship to ourselves, to each other, to the wonder of being alive.” - The Marginalian
Bats can hear shapes, plants can eat light, and bees can dance maps. When his life took him to a painfully dark place, the poet behind The CryptoNaturalist, Jarod K. Anderson, found comfort and redemption in these facts and the shift in perspectiv…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781643265179 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1643265172 |
| Author: | Jarod K. Anderson |
| Publisher: | Workman Publishing |
| Imprint: | Timber Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 15 December 2026 |
| Weight: | 360g |
| Dimensions: | 24mm x 150mm x 226mm |
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Critics Review
“Something in the Woods Loves You is a marvel of a book, blending unexpected wisdom with occasional whimsy, offering vivid observations of herons, hawks, trillium, and our human search for meaning. Jarod Anderson doesn’t shy away from the pain of mental illness and depression, but his utter honesty and love of the natural world offers all of us a rich, earthy experience of hope.”–Dinty W. Moore, author of To Hell With It
“Part self-help, part nature narrative, the memoir is a beautiful affirmation of life that asks a hopeful question: ‘What if it all works out in the end?’”–Kirkus
“A beautifully written, heartfelt memoir.”
–Psychology Today
“Jarod K. Anderson expresses his struggle with mental health in the beautifully written Something in the Woods Loves You, an intimate memoir based on his relationship with the woods near his Delaware County home.”–Akron Beacon Journal
“Just as the trees make the forest, vulnerability, honesty, and hard-earned wisdom make shimmer Jarod K. Anderson’s Something in the Woods Loves You. At once both delicate and direct, irrepressible and resilient, Anderson’s memoir is a stunning debut in the genre.”–Amy Butcher, author of Mothertrucker
“Trees are medicine, Jarod Anderson tells us in this vivid memoir, and so are great blue herons, lightning bugs, racoons, mice, bats, and all of the twenty or so wild creatures he celebrates in these pages. They cannot cure his depression, but they can ease it, for they do not judge him or shame him. As they go about their lives, free of the anxiety, ambition, and guilt that often afflict our own species, they inspire the author to imagine how he might live with less pain and more meaning. Readers may find the book a balm for their own aches.”–Scott Russell Sanders, author of The Way of Imagination
Jarod K. Anderson
Jarod K. Anderson is a writer, poet, and creator of The CryptoNaturalist Podcast. He has built a large audience of social media followers and podcast listeners with his strange, vibrant appreciations of nature. His books of poems are Field Guide to the Haunted Forest, Love Notes from the Hollow Tree, and Leaf Litter. He lives in Ohio between a forest and a cemetery.
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