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The Flitting : A Memoir of Fathers, Sons, and Butterflies

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"A book with wings."—Ali SmithA deeply felt and moving memoir about how butterflies become a vital connection between a son and his dying father.The Flitting: A Memoir of Fathers, Sons, and Butterflies is a masterful and touching memoir blending natural history, pop culture, and literary biography—delivering a richly layered and nuanced portrait of a son's attempt, after years of stubborn resistance, to take on his dying father's love of the natural world. With his father unable to leave the house and follow the butterfly cycle for the first time since he was a child, Masters endeavors to become his connection to the outdoors and his treasured butterflies, reporting back with stories of beloved species—Purple Emperors, Lulworth Skippers, Wood Whites and Silver-studded Blues—and with stories of the woods and meadows that are their habitats and once were his. Structured around a series of...
Request Code : ZLIBIO4388068
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Year:
2022
Publisher:
Tin House Books
Language:
English
ISBN 13:
9781959030812
ISBN:
9781959030898,9781959030812

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