The comfort of crows : a backyard year
Book
First edition.
"In The Comfort of Crows, Margaret Renkl presents a literary devotional: fifty-two chapters 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’s Day, its resourcefulness and sense of community setting a theme for 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 that 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, unexpectedly home during the pandemic, prepare to depart once more. Birdsong and night-blooming flowers evoke generations past. The city and the country where Renkl raised her family transform a little more with each passing day. And the natural world, now in visible flux, requires every ounce of hope and commitment from the author—and from us. For, as Renkl writes, 'radiant things are bursting forth in the darkest places, in the smallest nooks and deepest cracks of the hidden world.' With fifty-two original color artworks by the author’s brother, Billy Renkl, The Comfort of Crows is a lovely and deeply moving book from a cherished observer of the natural world." --
Available copies
- 8 of 19 copies available at Westchester Library System.
Current holds
5 current holds with 19 total copies.| Location | Call Number / Shelving Location |
Barcode | Status / Due Date |
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| Briarcliff Manor Public Library | 508 RENKL (Text) New Nonfiction |
31036151017875 |
Checked out 10/15/2024 |
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| Croton Free Library | 814.6 R (Text) Nonfiction |
31006151949633 |
Available - |
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| Eastchester Public Library | 814.6 RENKL (Text) Nonfiction |
31008152703365 |
Checked out 10/25/2024 |
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| Hastings-on-Hudson Public Library | 508 R (Text) Nonfiction |
31011151454873 |
Available - |
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| Hendrick Hudson Free Library | 508 R (Text) Nonfiction |
31016151853818 |
Checked out 09/28/2024 |
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| Irvington Public Library | 508 R (Text) Nonfiction |
31012154623399 |
Available - |
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| Lewisboro Library | 508 R (Text) New Nonfiction |
31032151455439 |
Checked out 10/18/2024 |
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| Mount Vernon Public Library | 508 R (Text) New Nonfiction |
31018155723518 |
Checked out 10/18/2024 |
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| North Castle Public Library | 508 R (Text) Nonfiction |
31001152178449 |
Available - |
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| North White Plains Branch | 508 R (Text) New Nonfiction |
31001250798072 |
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