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    Animal, Mineral, Radical: Essays on Wildlife, Family, and Food

    By BK Loren

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    From the acclaimed author of Theft: “A lyrical exploration of the timeless themes of nature, mortality, love, and family” in the American West (Kristen Iverson, author of Full Body Burden).
     
    “Radical, before it meant a person who advocates strong political reform, meant getting to the root of things, the origin. It comes from the Latin radix, radicis, meaning radish, a root vegetable.” —BK Loren
     
    These meditative essays range in subject from a transcendental encounter with a pack of coyotes to the irony of a neighbor’s claim that nature “has gone out of vogue”; from a mother’s slow deterioration from Parkinson’s disease to the unexpected way the Loma Prieta earthquake eroded the author’s depression by offering her a sense of her small place in our wild and worthwhile world.
     
    Award-winning writer and naturalist BK Loren takes an empathetic and gentle approach to the intricacies of human relationships and the nature of consciousness. Fear of death and time, cooperation born of clashing viewpoints, the beauty of tradition even when it’s destructive, a love of language, a sense of loss amid the fast-paced materialistic world—through each of these subjects and more, Loren peels back the layers of her own life, revealing what it means to be a human being in these often inhumane times.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateFeb 1, 2013
    ISBN9781619022010
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      At times this book is a painting, at others a poem, or a song to life and all of it's wonderful variety. It is passion and it is pain because a good life necessarily has both--a yin/yang of mystery that is nevertheless familiar to us all. BK is boldly open and honest about things that have happened in her life, and how they help mold her into the person she is today, which is still a forever changing being. Her lyric voice, even when hard edged, is mesmerizing. I loved this book, and I will be its champion forever--it is definitely on my list of best books I've ever read.