How to Be a Living Thing: Meditations on Intuitive Oysters, Hopeful Doves, and Being Human in the World by Andrew, Mari

How to Be a Living Thing: Meditations on Intuitive Oysters, Hopeful Doves, and Being Human in the World

A luminous collection of essays exploring the lessons we can incorporate from the animal world in order...
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Author: Mari Andrew
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How to Be a Living Thing: Meditations on Intuitive Oysters, Hopeful Doves, and Being Human in the World by Andrew, Mari

How to Be a Living Thing: Meditations on Intuitive Oysters, Hopeful Doves, and Being Human in the World

$43.91

How to Be a Living Thing: Meditations on Intuitive Oysters, Hopeful Doves, and Being Human in the World

$43.91
Author: Mari Andrew
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
A luminous collection of essays exploring the lessons we can incorporate from the animal world in order to live more fully as humans

A shelter cat teaches us that our damaged parts, too, are worthy of love... a captive orca shows us that inconvenience and difficulties are the blessing of a full life... a gorilla teaches the universal language of grief... a group of oysters who prove that magic and science can and do coexist...

In How to Be a Living Thing, Mari Andrew reflects on the ways animals mirror, challenge, and deepen our experiences as living creatures in the world. Through her personal stories and explorations into the inner world of other creatures, Mari illuminates the opportunities and wonders of being a living thing. Highly-sensitive horses, overly-cautious donkeys, and silly social rats are just a few of the animal teachers who offer us glimpses of the glories and shortcomings of humanity.

Heartwarming, funny, and insightful, How to Be a Living Thing reminds us that we are perfectly imperfect beings, capable of profound connection with each other and with all other species of the remarkable natural world that surrounds us.

Author: Mari Andrew
Publisher: Penguin Life
Published: 07/15/2025
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.44h x 5.88w x 0.97d
ISBN: 9780593831663


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2025

About the Author
Mari Andrew is a writer, artist, and speaker based in New York City. She is the author of Am I There Yet? and My Inner Sky and writes the newsletter Out of the Blue on Substack.

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