Marries her comprehensive understanding of our environmental crisis with her command as a deeply emotive narrator, to extraordinary effect. Modernity has created a fissure between humankind and the natural world, as Millet illuminates; her book is an attempt to bridge that divide, a work of spiritual grounding and radical realignment ... The book unspools in lyrical vignettes, a densely concentrated but propulsive form that allows Millet to move nimbly from one anecdote or idea to the next ... A lot of ground to cover. But Millet weaves these disparate threads together expertly, reinforcing how all of these elements — our individual memories, our ancestral identities, the future of human and nonhuman life — are fundamentally inextricable, whether we care to recognize it or not ... Potent ... This is a book that stays with you.
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