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How to Be a Living Thing: Meditations on Intuitive Oysters, Hopeful Doves, and Being Human in the World - Hardcover

How to Be a Living Thing: Meditations on Intuitive Oysters, Hopeful Doves, and Being Human in the World - Hardcover

$29.00

How to Be a Living Thing: Meditations on Intuitive Oysters, Hopeful Doves, and Being Human in the World - Hardcover

Name: How to Be a Living Thing: Meditations on Intuitive Oysters, Hopeful Doves, and Being Human in the World - Hardcover
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SKU: 9780593831663
Price: 29.00 USD
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by Mari Andrew

$29.00

Book Overview

A 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 Andrew reflects on the ways animals mirror, challenge, and deepen our experiences as living creatures in the world. Through her personal stories and explorations into the inner world of other creatures, Mari illuminates the opportunities and wonders of being a living thing. Highly-sensitive horses, overly-cautious donkeys, and silly social rats are just a few of the animal teachers who offer us glimpses of the glories and shortcomings of humanity.

Heartwarming, funny, and insightful, How to Be a Living Thing reminds us that we are perfectly imperfect beings, capable of profound connection with each other and with all other species of the remarkable natural world that surrounds us.

ISBN	9780593831663
Author	Mari Andrew
Publisher	Penguin Life
Genre	Biography, Hobbies & interests, Self-help & personal development, and Education
Format	Hardcover
Published	July 2025
Language	ENG- English
Pages	256
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print

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