In Children and Other Wild Animals, bestselling novelist Brian
Doyle (Mink River, The Plover) describes encounters with astounding
beings of every sort and shape. These true tales of animals and
human mammals (generally the smaller sizes, but here and there
elders and jumbos) delightfully blur the line between the two. In
these short vignettes, Doyle explores the seethe of life on this
startling planet, the astonishing variety of our riveting
companions, and the joys available to us when we pause, see, savor,
and celebrate the small things that are not small in the least.
Doyle’s trademark quirky prose is at once lyrical, daring, and
refreshing; his essays are poignant but not pap, sharp but not
sermons, and revelatory at every turn. Throughout there is humor
and humility and a palpable sense of wonder, with passages of
reflection so true and hard earned they make you stop and reread a
line, a paragraph, a page. Children and Other Wild Animals gathers
previously unpublished work with selections that have appeared in
Orion, The Sun, Utne Reader, High Country News, and The American
Scholar, as well as Best American Essays (“The Greatest Nature
Essay Ever”) and Best American Nature and Science Writing
(“Fishering”). “The Creature Beyond the Mountain,”
Doyle’s paean to the mighty and mysterious sturgeon of the
Pacific Northwest, won the John Burroughs Award for Outstanding
Nature Essay. As he notes in that tribute to all things
“sturgeonness”: “Sometimes you want to see the forest and not
the trees. Sometimes you find yourself starving for what’s true,
and not about a person but about all people. This is how religion
and fascism were born, but it’s also why music is the greatest of
arts, and why stories matter, and why we all cannot help staring at
fires and great waters.”
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