Wild Hope: Stories for Lent from the Vanishing by Boss, Gayle

Wild Hope: Stories for Lent from the Vanishing

This is a beautifully elegant, deeply excellent book, pursued by grace on every page, in every stunning...
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Author: Gayle Boss
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Wild Hope: Stories for Lent from the Vanishing by Boss, Gayle

Wild Hope: Stories for Lent from the Vanishing

$71.99 $39.97

Wild Hope: Stories for Lent from the Vanishing

$71.99 $39.97
Author: Gayle Boss
Format: Paperback
Language: English
This is a beautifully elegant, deeply excellent book, pursued by grace on every page, in every stunning illustration."
--Carl Safina, ecologist, NYT bestselling author of Beyond Words and Becoming Wild; MacArthur Fellow and founder of The Safina Center

From the bestselling author of All Creation Waits -- a beautiful book of hope for Lent, filled with twenty-five of Earth's rare and wild creatures. Their stories, while tragic and uncomfortable, will wake readers to greater compassion and hope.

Pangolins and polar bears, olms, lemurs, and leopards. We share this planet with creatures magnificent, delicate, intricate--and now vanishing at a faster rate than at any other time in Earth's history.

Spend Lent with twenty-five of these endangered animals. Vivid descriptions of the miracle of each creature and the peril it faces will fill readers with wonder and grief at what these animals suffer on a planet shaped by human choices. Their true and difficult stories will wake readers to a greater compassion--which is what Lent, meaning "springtime," has always been for. These stories also wake in us a wild hope that from all this death and ruin something new could rise. The promise of Lent is that something new will rise. In fact, as these stories attest, our hope, though wild, is not impossible and is already loose in the world.

Author: Gayle Boss
Publisher: Paraclete Press (MA)
Published: 01/21/2020
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.30h x 6.90w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781640601994
Audience: 08 - 12

About the Author
Gayle Boss writes in Michigan, where she was born and raised. Her life-long love of animals and her immersion in spiritual texts and practices have melded in poems and essays that explore how relationships with animals specifically, and an attentive presence in the natural world generally, restore us to our deepest selves. She is also the author of All Creation Waits: The Advent Mystery of New Beginnings. The mother of two grown sons, Gayle lives in Grand Rapids with her husband.

David G. Klein is an award-winning graphic artist with illustrations for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Random House, Tor Books, DC Comics, and Marvel. He is a graphic novelist, printmaker, engraving artist, and co-founder of Brooklyn-based Point Made Animation.

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