{"product_id":"the-mourners-bestiary-hardcover","title":"The Mourner's Bestiary - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEiren Caffall\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA critically-acclaimed literary memoir braiding together environmental research and the personal journey of generational healing, grief, and chronic illness.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eCaffall brilliantly parallels her family's suffering with large-scale ecological upheaval, maintaining a flicker of hope for the future in both cases. This deserves a wide readership.\"\u003c\/i\u003e Publisher's Weekly Starred Review\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAuthor 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA literary memoir on loss, chronic illness, and generational healing, Caffall's \u003ci\u003eThe Mourner's Bestiary\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Beguiling, idiosyncratic [...] Caffall writes with plangent intensity about our responsibility toward the planet, and her eye for the wonder and beauty of ocean life pierces the illusion of disconnected existence.\" ? \u003ci\u003eWhiting Creative Nonfiction Grant judges citation\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Eiren Caffall has produced some of the most powerful writing on the ecological crisis I have read anywhere. Caffall is a gifted writer, and this book is strong medicine.\" ? Naomi Klein, author, social activist, and filmmaker\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEIREN CAFFALL is a writer and musician based in Chicago. Her writing on loss and nature, oceans and extinction has appeared in Guernica, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Literary Hub, Al Jazeera, The Rumpus, and the anthology Elementals: Volume IV. Fire forthcoming in 2024 from The Center for Humans and Nature. She received a 2023 Whiting Award in Creative Nonfiction, a Social Justice News Nexus fellowship, and residencies at the Banff Centre, Millay Colony, MacDowell Colony (waitlisted), Hedgebrook, and Ragdale. Her memoir The Mourner's Bestiary is forthcoming from Row House Publishing in 2024 and her novel All the Water in the World is forthcoming from St. Martin's Press in early 2025. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 294\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 8.3 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 15, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51758617297184,"sku":"9781955905589","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/608160df8070264dc7d697dad17e4eec_58b1e674-25ca-45bc-a811-98f5afaa4b0c.webp?v=1780130618","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-mourners-bestiary-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}