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For fans of Helen MacDonald's H is for Hawk and Mary Roach, Erica
Berry's WOLFISH blends science, history, and cultural criticism in
a years-long journey to understand our myths about wolves, and
track one legendary wolf, OR-7, from the Wallowa Mountains of
Oregon A Most Anticipated Book of 2023: TIME, Los Angeles Times,
Vulture, Salon, Bustle, Los Angeles Times, The Rumpus, Financial
Times, Reader's Digest, LitHub, Book Riot, Debutiful, and more!
"Wolfish starts with a single wolf and spirals through nuanced
investigations of fear, gender, violence, and story. A GORGEOUS
achievement." --Blair Braverman, author of Welcome to the Goddamn
Ice Cube "This is one of those stories that begins with a female
body. Hers was crumpled, roadside, in the ash-colored slush between
asphalt and snowbank." So begins Erica Berry's kaleidoscopic
exploration of wolves, both real and symbolic. At the center of
this lyrical inquiry is the legendary OR-7, who roams away from his
familial pack in northeastern Oregon. While charting OR-7's
record-breaking journey out of the Wallowa Mountains, Erica
simultaneously details her own coming-of-age as she moves away from
home and wrestles with inherited beliefs about fear, danger,
femininity, and the body. As Erica chronicles her own
migration--from crying wolf as a child on her grandfather's sheep
farm to accidentally eating mandrake in Sicily--she searches for
new expressions for how to be a brave woman, human, and animal in
our warming world. What do stories so long told about wolves tell
us about our relationship to fear? How can our society peel back
the layers of what scares us? By strategically unspooling the
strands of our cultural constructions of predator and prey, and
what it means to navigate a world in which we can be both, Erica
bridges the gap between human fear and grief through the lens of a
wrongfully misunderstood species. Wolfish is for anybody trying to
navigate a world that is often scary. A powerful, timeless, and
necessary book for our current and future generations.
Wolves abound through cultural folklore and through literature -
vilified and venerated in equal measure. In Wolfish, Erica Berry
examines these depictions, alongside her own research of the wolf
for nearly a decade, to get to the heart of what our stories about
the wolf reveal about our relationships with one another and
ourselves: 'What does it mean to want to embody the same creature
from which you are supposed to be running?' The wolf is so often
depicted as the male predator, preying on the vulnerable girl/woman
who strays from the path; the she-wolf meanwhile depicts women who
sit outside the accepted boundaries of feminine behaviour. Berry
openly recounts her own uncomfortable and sometimes frightening
experiences as a woman to try to understand how we navigate our
fears when threat can seem constant. Through it all, Berry finds
new expressions for courage and survival: how to be a brave human
and animal member of our fragile, often dangerous world.
A FINANCIAL TIMES NON-FICTION BOOK TO READ IN 2023 A MOST
ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2023 for VULTURE, LIT HUB, GOODREADS, RUMPUS,
BUSTLE, READER'S DIGEST and more Wolves abound through cultural
folklore and through literature - vilified and venerated in equal
measure. In Wolfish, Erica Berry examines these depictions,
alongside her own research of the wolf for nearly a decade, to get
to the heart of what our stories about the wolf reveal about our
relationships with one another and ourselves: 'What does it mean to
want to embody the same creature from which you are supposed to be
running?' The wolf is so often depicted as the male predator,
preying on the vulnerable girl/woman who strays from the path; the
she-wolf meanwhile depicts women who sit outside the accepted
boundaries of feminine behaviour. Berry openly recounts her own
uncomfortable and sometimes frightening experiences as a woman to
try to understand how we navigate our fears when threat can seem
constant. Through it all, Berry finds new expressions for courage
and survival: how to be a brave human and animal member of our
fragile, often dangerous world.
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