Lydia Millet

We Loved It All: A Memory of Life -- Lydia Millet, Hardcover

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Across more than a dozen acclaimed works of fiction, readers have become intimate with Lydia Millet's distinctive voice and sly wit. We Loved It All, her first nonfiction book, combines the precision of fact with the power of narrative to evoke our enmeshment with the more-than-human world.

Emerging from Millet's quarter century of wildlife and climate advocacy, We Loved it All marries scenes from her life with moments of nearness to "the others"-- the animals and plants with whom we share the earth. Accounts of fears and failures, jobs and friendships, childhood and motherhood are interspersed with exquisite accounts of nonhumans and arresting meditations on the power of story to shape the future.

Seeking to understand why we immerse ourselves in the domestic and immediate, turning away from more sweeping views, she examines how grand cultural myths can deny our longing for the company of nature and deprive us of its charisma and inspiration. In a thrilling distillation of experience and emotion, she evinces the familiar sense of feeling both well-meaning and powerless--a creature subject to forces that are baffling in their immensity. The fear and grief of extinction and climate change, Millet suggests, are forms of love that might be turned to resistance.

We Loved It All shimmers with curiosity and laconic humor yet addresses with reverence the most urgent crises of our day. An incantatory, bewitching devotional to the vast and precious bestiary of the earth, it asks that we extend to other living beings the protection they deserve--the simple grace of continued existence.



Author: Lydia Millet
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 04/02/2024
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781324073659

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 11/01/2023 pg. 16
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2024
Publishers Weekly 02/26/2024
Booklist 03/15/2024 pg. 36

Product Tags:

American - 20th century, Animals & Nature, Authors, Environmental Conservation & Protection, Essays, Hardcover, Literary Collections, Lydia Millet, Nature, Subjects & Themes, W. W. Norton & Company

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