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Things that are, Amy Leach ; illustrations by Nate Christopherson

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Things that are

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Amy Leach ; illustrations by Nate Christopherson

The debut collection of a writer whose accolades precede her: a Whiting Award, a Rona Jaffe Award, a Best American Essays selection, and a Pushcart Prize, all received before her first book-length publication. This book represents a major break-out of an entirely new brand of nonfiction writer, in a mode like that of Ander Monson, John D'Agata, and Eula Biss, but a new sort of beast entirely its own. Things That Are takes jellyfish, fainting goats, and imperturbable caterpillars as just a few of its many inspirations. In a series of essays that progress from the tiniest earth dwellers to the mo

Contents; Donkey Derby; I. THINGS OF EARTH; Trappists; In Which the River Makes Off with Three Stationary Characters; Goats and Bygone Goats; Talent; Warbler Delight; Pea Madness; Radical Bears in the Forest Delicious; Trooping with Trouble; Silly Lilies; The Wine of Astonishment; When Trees Dream of Being Trees; Love; Please Do Not Yell at the Sea Cucumber; You Are Going to Fly; God; MEMORANDUM TO THE ANIMALS; II. THINGS OF HEAVEN; The Same Old Joy; The Safari; Stairs; Sail On, My Little Honeybee; Twinkle Twinkle; The Wild What; Comfortless; THE ORACLE; Afterword; The Round-Earth AffairGLOASSARY OF STRANGE BEASTS AND PHENOMENAAcknowledgments; About the Author