A Slender Thread: Rediscovering Hope at the Heart of Crisis
An astonishing book by the prize-winning, bestselling author of A Natural History of the Senses thatreveals her parallel lives as an observer of the wildlife in her garden and as a telephone crisis counselor.
"(Ackerman) brings a luminous and illuminating combination of sensuality, science, and speculation to whatever she considers." —San Francisco Examiner
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A Slender Thread: Rediscovering Hope at the Heart of Crisis
An astonishing book by the prize-winning, bestselling author of A Natural History of the Senses thatreveals her parallel lives as an observer of the wildlife in her garden and as a telephone crisis counselor.
"(Ackerman) brings a luminous and illuminating combination of sensuality, science, and speculation to whatever she considers." —San Francisco Examiner
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A Slender Thread: Rediscovering Hope at the Heart of Crisis
An astonishing book by the prize-winning, bestselling author of A Natural History of the Senses thatreveals her parallel lives as an observer of the wildlife in her garden and as a telephone crisis counselor.
"(Ackerman) brings a luminous and illuminating combination of sensuality, science, and speculation to whatever she considers." —San Francisco Examiner
DIANE ACKERMAN has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction in addition to garnering many other awards and recognitions for her work, which include the bestselling The Zookeeper’s Wife and A Natural History of the Senses. She lives in Ithaca, New York.
Table of Contents
Preface
3
1
Borrowed Hearts
5
2
Squirrels, and the Dark Night of the Soul
26
3
All the Bright Catastrophes
45
4
A Mass of Life
62
5
The Golden Apples of the Sun, and Silver Apples of the Moon