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The comfort of crows : a backyard year  Cover Image Book Book

The comfort of crows : a backyard year / Margaret Renkl ; art by Billy Renkl.

Renkl, Margaret, (author.). Renkl, Billy, (illustrator.).

Summary:

"In The Comfort of Crows, Margaret Renkl presents a literary devotional: fifty-two chapters that follow the creatures and plants in her backyard over the course of a year. As we move through the seasons-from a crow spied on New Year's Day, its resourcefulness and sense of community setting a theme for the year, to the lingering bluebirds of December, revisiting the nest box they used in spring-what develops is a portrait of joy and grief: joy in the ongoing pleasures of the natural world, and grief over winters that end too soon and songbirds that grow fewer and fewer. Along the way, we also glimpse the changing rhythms of a human life. Grown children, unexpectedly home during the pandemic, prepare to depart once more. Birdsong and night-blooming flowers evoke generations past. The city and the country where Renkl raised her family transform a little more with each passing day. And the natural world, now in visible flux, requires every ounce of hope and commitment from the author-and from us."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781954118461 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: xvi, 269 pages : colour illustrations ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Spiegel and Grau, 2023.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Winter -- Spring -- Summer -- Fall.
Subject: Renkl, Margaret.
Animals.
Backyard gardens.
Natural history.
Nature observation.
Nature.
Seasons.
Genre: Autobiographies.
Essays.
Personal narratives.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Stroud Branch 508 Ren 31681010347912 NONFIC Available -

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520 . ‡a"In The Comfort of Crows, Margaret Renkl presents a literary devotional: fifty-two chapters that follow the creatures and plants in her backyard over the course of a year. As we move through the seasons-from a crow spied on New Year's Day, its resourcefulness and sense of community setting a theme for the year, to the lingering bluebirds of December, revisiting the nest box they used in spring-what develops is a portrait of joy and grief: joy in the ongoing pleasures of the natural world, and grief over winters that end too soon and songbirds that grow fewer and fewer. Along the way, we also glimpse the changing rhythms of a human life. Grown children, unexpectedly home during the pandemic, prepare to depart once more. Birdsong and night-blooming flowers evoke generations past. The city and the country where Renkl raised her family transform a little more with each passing day. And the natural world, now in visible flux, requires every ounce of hope and commitment from the author-and from us."-- ‡cProvided by publisher.
60010. ‡aRenkl, Margaret.
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