The Mourner's Bestiary by Caffall, Eiren
The Mourner's Bestiary by Caffall, Eiren

The Mourner's Bestiary

A critically-acclaimed literary memoir braiding together environmental research and the personal journey of generational healing, grief, and...
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SKU: 9781955905589
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Author: Eiren Caffall
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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The Mourner's Bestiary by Caffall, Eiren

The Mourner's Bestiary

$42.73
The Mourner's Bestiary by Caffall, Eiren

The Mourner's Bestiary

$42.73
Author: Eiren Caffall
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
A critically-acclaimed literary memoir braiding together environmental research and the personal journey of generational healing, grief, and chronic illness.

"Caffall 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." Publisher's Weekly Starred Review

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 the planet, and her eye for the wonder and beauty of ocean life pierces the illusion of disconnected existence." ? Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant judges citation

"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

Author: Eiren Caffall
Publisher: Row House Publishing
Published: 10/15/2024
Pages: 294
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.60w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9781955905589


Award: Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards - Gold Medal Winner
Award: Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards - Bronze Medal Winner


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/30/2024
Shelf Awareness 10/17/2024
Foreword 10/14/2024
Booklist 11/01/2024 pg. 16
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2025

About the Author
EIREN 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. Row House Publishing will release her first book and memoir, The Mourner's Bestiary, in 2024, and her novel, All the Water in the World, is slated for release by St. Martin's Press in early 2025.
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