The Comfort of Crows: a backyard year by M argaret Renkl
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\n"In The Comfor t of Crows\, Margaret Renkl presents a literary devotional: fifty-two chap ters that follow the creatures and plants in her backyard over the course of a year. As we move through the seasons-from a crow spied on New Year&rs quo\;s Day\, its resourcefulness and sense of community setting a theme fo r the year\, to the lingering bluebirds of December\, revisiting the nest box they used in spring-what develops is a portrait of joy and grief: joy in the ongoing pleasures of the natural world\, and grief over winters tha t end too soon and songbirds that grow fewer and fewer. Along the way\, we also glimpse the changing rhythms of a human life. Grown children\, unexp ectedly home during the pandemic\, prepare to depart once more. Birdsong a nd night-blooming flowers evoke generations past. The city and the country where Renkl raised her family transform a little more with each passing d ay. And the natural world\, now in visible flux\, requires every ounce of hope and commitment from the author-and from us." -- Provided by publisher .
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