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A critically-acclaimed literary memoir braiding together environmental research and the personal journey of generational healing, grief, and chronic illness. Author 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. A literary memoir on loss, chronic illness, and generational healing, Caffall's The Mourner's Bestiary 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. The 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. "Beguiling, idiosyncratic [...] Caffall writes with plangent intensity about our responsibility toward...
Request Code : ZLIB.IO18327839
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Year:
2022
Publisher:
Row House Publishing
Language:
English
ISBN 10:
1955905584
ISBN 13:
9781955905589
ISBN:
9781955905596, 1955905592, 9781955905589, 1955905584

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