How to Be a Living Thing, 9780593831663
Hardcover
Animals guide us to live fully, connecting to our shared world.
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How to Be a Living Thing

meditations on intuitive oysters, hopeful doves, and being human in the world

$58.74

  • Hardcover

    256 pages

  • Release Date

    22 September 2025

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Summary

Lessons from the Wild: Finding Ourselves in the Animal Kingdom

A luminous collection of essays exploring the lessons we can incorporate from the animal world in order to live more fully as humans.

A shelter cat teaches us that our damaged parts, too, are worthy of love… a captive orca shows us that inconvenience and difficulties are the blessing of a full life… a gorilla teaches the universal language of grief… a group of oysters who prove that magic and science can and do c…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780593831663
ISBN-10:0593831667
Author:Mari Andrew
Publisher:Random House USA Inc
Imprint:Penguin Life
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:256
Release Date:22 September 2025
Weight:342g
Dimensions:187mm x 219mm x 229mm
About The Author

Mari Andrew

Mari Andrew is a writer, artist, and speaker based in New York City. She is the author of Am I There Yet? and My Inner Sky and writes the newsletter Out of the Blue.

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