From the cosmic to the quotidian, this collection of essays by Amy
Leach asks us to reconsider our kinship with the wild world.
The debut collection of a writer whose accolades precede her: a
Whiting Award, a Rona Jaffe Award, a "Best American Essays"
selection, and a Pushcart Prize, all received before her first
book-length publication. This book represents a major break-out of
an entirely new brand of nonfiction writer, in a mode like that of
Ander Monson, John D'Agata, and Eula Biss, but a new sort of beast
entirely its own.
"Things That Are "takes jellyfish, fainting goats, and
imperturbable caterpillars as just a few of its many inspirations.
In a series of essays that progress from the tiniest earth dwellers
to the most far flung celestial bodies--considering the similarity
of gods to donkeys, the inexorability of love and vines, the
relations of exploding stars to exploding sea cucumbers--Amy Leach
rekindles a vital communion with the wild world, dormant for far
too long. "Things That Are "is not specifically of the animal, the
human, or the phenomenal; it is a book of wonder, one the reader
cannot help but leave with their perceptions both expanded and
confounded in delightful ways.
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