The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
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We are reading The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl and discussing it in October.
In The Comfort of Crows, Margaret Renkl presents a literary devotional: fifty-two chapters that follow the creatures and plants in her backyard over the course of a year. As we move through the seasons—from a crow spied on New Year’s Day, its resourcefulness and sense of community setting a theme for the year, to the lingering bluebirds of December, revisiting the nest box they used in spring—what develops is a portrait of joy and grief: joy in the ongoing pleasures of the natural world, and grief over winters that end too soon and songbirds that grow fewer and fewer.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“A beautiful love letter to nature and the world around us.”—Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club September ’24 Pick)
From the beloved New York Times opinion writer: a luminous book that traces the passing of seasons, both personal and natural.