What can a wagging tail and soaring wings teach us about a life well lived?
“A loving testament to the way animals can shape a life.”
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (starred review) ★
From Icelandic mares and Irish wolfhounds to elephants, leopards, hyenas, and a desert-adapted lioness named Charlie, Pam Houston has learned life’s most important lessons from animals. How to play. How to rest. How to love. How to die. How to be present with the dying. How to be present with the living and with the Earth. How to find joy in the least likely places. How to find joy, literally, everywhere. With playful sincerity, Houston finds power and promise in the teachings of our fellow creatures and reminds us that animals are here for us, every day and everywhere.
PAM HOUSTON is the award-winning author of two novels, Contents May Have Shifted and Sight Hound; short stories, Cowboys Are My Weakness and Waltzing the Cat; and nonfiction, Without Exception, Deep Creek, and Air Mail. Houston teaches at UC Davis and the Institute of American Indian Arts, and she co-founded Writing By Writers. She lives on a homestead in Colorado with her husband.
What can a wagging tail and soaring wings teach us about a life well lived?
“A loving testament to the way animals can shape a life.”
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (starred review) ★
From Icelandic mares and Irish wolfhounds to elephants, leopards, hyenas, and a desert-adapted lioness named Charlie, Pam Houston has learned life’s most important lessons from animals. How to play. How to rest. How to love. How to die. How to be present with the dying. How to be present with the living and with the Earth. How to find joy in the least likely places. How to find joy, literally, everywhere. With playful sincerity, Houston finds power and promise in the teachings of our fellow creatures and reminds us that animals are here for us, every day and everywhere.
PAM HOUSTON is the award-winning author of two novels, Contents May Have Shifted and Sight Hound; short stories, Cowboys Are My Weakness and Waltzing the Cat; and nonfiction, Without Exception, Deep Creek, and Air Mail. Houston teaches at UC Davis and the Institute of American Indian Arts, and she co-founded Writing By Writers. She lives on a homestead in Colorado with her husband.
