Conversations with Birds
by Priyanka Kumar
Narrated by Priyanka Kumar
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Pub Date May 14 2024 | Archive Date Jun 04 2024
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Description
"Birds are my almanac. They tune me into the seasons, and into myself."
So begins this lively collection of essays by acclaimed filmmaker and novelist Priyanka Kumar. Growing up at the feet of the Himalayas in northern India, Kumar took for granted her immersion in a lush natural world. After moving to North America as a teenager, she found herself increasingly distanced from more than human life and discouraged by the civilization she saw contributing to its destruction. It was only in her twenties, living in Los Angeles and working on films, that she began to rediscover her place in the landscape-and in the cosmos-by way of watching birds.
Tracing her movements across the American West, this stirring collection of essays brings the avian world richly to life. Kumar's perspective is not that of a list keeper, counting and cataloguing species. For Kumar, birds "become a portal to a more vivid, enchanted world." At a time when climate change, habitat loss, and the reckless use of pesticides are causing widespread extinction of species, Kumar's reflections on these messengers from our distant past and harbingers of our future offer luminous evidence of her suggestion that "seeds of transformation lie dormant in all of our hearts. Sometimes it just takes the right bird to awaken us."
A Note From the Publisher
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2023 CLMP Firecracker Award Finalist
2023 CLMP Firecracker Award Finalist
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2023 CLMP Firecracker Award Finalist
Advance Praise
"In this collection of elegant and evocative essays, a novelist reflects on the beauty and significance of birds, those animals that 'become a portal to a more vivid, enchanted world.'" —The New York Times
Available Editions
EDITION | Audiobook, Unabridged |
ISBN | 9798350853643 |
PRICE | $19.99 (USD) |
DURATION | 9 Hours, 16 Minutes |
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