How to Be a Living Thing: Meditations on Intuitive Oysters, Hopeful Doves, and Being Human in the World WWII and no losing her heart

and no losing her heart along the way

It will take a tense custody battle to decide who deserves to be Rose's mother

discovering some secrets are worth dying for-and others are worth killing for

- Large photographs that show each species or item in incredible detail

and prisoners are com­peting for the ultimate prize: their freedom

How to Be a Living Thing: Meditations on Intuitive Oysters, Hopeful Doves, and Being Human in the World WWII and no losing her heartA luminous collection of essays exploring the lessons we can incorporate from the animal world in order to live more fully as humans A shelter cat teaches us that our damaged parts, too, are worthy of love a captive orca shows us that inconvenience and difficulties are the blessing of a full life a gorilla teaches the universal language of grief a group of oysters who prove that magic and science can and do coexist In How to Be a Living Thing, Mari