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The Flitting: A Memoir of Fathers, Sons, and Butterflies

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"A book with wings."—Ali Smith

A deeply felt and moving memoir about how butterflies become a vital connection between a son and his dying father.

The Flitting: A Memoir of Fathers, Sons, and Butterflies is a masterful and touching memoir blending natural history, pop culture, and literary biography—delivering a richly layered and nuanced portrait of a son’s attempt, after years of stubborn resistance, to take on his dying father’s love of the natural world. With his father unable to leave th...