Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
Settle into this debut work, a shimmering memoir of family and place told in lyrical linked essays, some no more than a few enticing sentences and vivid illustrations by the author's brother. Late Migrations captures stories of kinship and personal legacies of grief, joy, cruelty, loss and caring, while rippling throughout with observations of the close natural world of her backyard, woods and fields, trees, grasses, flowers, birds, snakes and insects.
Growing up in Alabama, Renkl was a devoted reader, an explorer of riverbeds and red-dirt roads, and a fiercely loved daughter. Here, in brief essays, she traces a tender and honest portrait of her complicated parents—her exuberant, creative mother; her steady, supportive father—and of the bitte...




