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Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss

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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.

From New York Times contributing opinion writer Margaret Renkl comes an unusual, captivating portrait of a family—and of the cycles of joy and grief that inscribe human lives within the natural world.

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...