How to Be a Living Thing: Meditations on Intuitive Oysters, Hopeful Doves, and Being Human in the World WWII Under the watchful eyes of

Under the watchful eyes of the gods

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

delightful butter chicken curry

and prisoners are com­peting for the ultimate prize: their freedom

Sparks fly during a moonlight kiss and the enamored pair can’t wait to see each other again

How to Be a Living Thing: Meditations on Intuitive Oysters, Hopeful Doves, and Being Human in the World WWII Under the watchful eyes ofA 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