The Snag
a mother, a forest, and wild grief
$39.01
- Hardcover
320 pages
- Release Date
28 July 2025
Summary
The Snag: Grief, Nature, and the Art of Living
Every day, we hear about and experience griefs, large and small, in our families, friendships, communities, and worldwide. The grief of a loved one passing. The grief of a way of life ceasing to exist. The grief of global pandemic, war, climate collapse.
In The Snag, Tessa McWatt takes on personal and collective grief, and climate change, in her much-anticipated second nonfiction book.
As her mother’s dementia advances a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781915590985 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1915590981 |
| Author: | Tessa McWatt |
| Publisher: | Scribe Publications |
| Imprint: | Scribe Publications |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 28 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 428g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 135mm x 27mm |
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Critics Review
‘In The Snag, Tessa McWatt dwells in powerful contradictions as she brings us along through her complex journeys of grief and joy across continents, offering multilayered and much-needed insight into connection and belonging beyond ourselves. Making the global intimate and the familial expansive, this book is a poignant lament for what we are losing and a call to care for what we have not yet lost.’
– Kate Neville, author of Going to Seed‘An extraordinary book — both a love song to the planet and reminder of how precious it is to be alive. Wise, bold, and deeply affecting, The Snag is an urgent plea for change.’
– Stephanie Bishop, author of The Anniversary‘The Snag is a radical ecosystem of a book. Love and loss, death and renewal, seeds and snags; the intimately personal and the globally political are all delicately balanced here. Tessa McWatt holds us unflinchingly close in this singular and universal story of a mother’s decline, and demands that we face up to the grief of all that we stand to lose in our collective planetary home’s demise.’
– Marchelle Farrell, author of Uprooting‘I love this book; it made me cry and hope and eventually be still. Tessa McWatt is simply one of the best writers available to us. I suggest you read this now.’
– Leone Ross, author of This One Sky Day‘Terrific. A beautiful meditation on grief, the power of nature, and how communities recover from loss. Tessa McWatt is a deeply compassionate talent.’
– Irenosen Okojie, author of Curandera‘The Snag is a raw and deeply personal exploration of trauma, grief, and environmental destruction … A profound must-read text on the yearning for radical change.’
– Victoria Pratt, Creative Director, Invisible Flock and Land Body EcologiesPraise for Shame on Me:
‘She is one of our greatest black female writers … She’s a deeply thoughtful woman and deeply radical in her thinking. She’s not on the fence about her politics.’
– Monique Roffey * The Observer *Praise for Shame on Me:
‘Political, personal, intellectual, and critical.’
– Bernardine Evaristo, author of Girl, Woman, OtherPraise for Shame on Me:
‘Eloquent and moving.’
– Barbara Taylor * The Guardian *Praise for Higher Ed:
‘Tessa McWatt brings the traditional campus novel bang up to date … This polyphonic novel owes an obvious debt to Zadie Smith’s White Teeth, but nevertheless [McWatt] manages to make this exuberant but bittersweet tale something all of her own.’
– Lucy Scholes * The Observer *About The Author
Tessa McWatt
Tessa McWatt is the author of seven novels, two books for young people, and one nonfiction book. Her work has been nominated for the Governor General’s Award and the Toronto Book Awards, and won the OCM Bocas Prize. She is a winner of the Eccles British Library Award 2018. McWatt is Professor of Creative Writing at UEA.
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