Margaret Renkl - Comfort of Crows

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Margaret Renkl

On Monday, October 30th, Left Bank Books and Schlafly Public Library presents Margaret Renkl, beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations. Join us for discussion of The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year. Ann Patchett says "The Comfort of Crows is a howling love letter to the world." Renkl will personalize and sign copies after the presentation!

About "The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year"

"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."

About the Author

Margaret Renkl is the author of 'Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss" and "Graceland," "At Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South." She is a contributing opinion writer for "The New York Times" where her essays appear weekly. The founding editor of Chapter 16, a daily literary publication of Humanities Tennessee, and a graduate of Auburn University and the University of South Carolina, she lives in Nashville.

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Schlafly Public Library

St. Louis

225 N Euclid