The Everybody Ensemble - Donkeys, Essays, and Other Pandemoniums by Amy Leach

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In short, gloriously inventive essays, the Whiting award-winning author Amy Leach's the everybody ensemble invites us to see and celebrate our oddball, interconnected world humans, please turn your guns into kazoos. Are you feeling dismay, despair, disillusion. Need a break from the ho-hum, the hopeless, and the hurtful. Feel certain that there's a version of our world that doesn't break down into tiny categories of alliance but brings everybody together into one clattering, sometimes discordant but always welcoming chorus of glorious pandemonium. Amy Leach, the celebrated author of the transcendent things. That asre, invites you into The Everybody Ensemble, an effervescent tonic of a book. These short, wildly inventive essays are filled with praise songs, poetry, ingenious critique, soul-lifting philosophy, music theory, and whimsical but scientific trips into nature. Here, you will meet platypuses, Tycho Brahe and his moose, barnacle goslings, medieval mystics, photosynthetic bacteria, and a wholly fresh representation of the biblical Job. Equal parts call to reason and to joy, this book is an irrepressible celebration of our oddball, interconnected world. The everybody ensemble delivers unexpected wisdom and a wake-up call that sounds from within.

  • Product Features

    • Suggested age range - Adult
    • Format - Hardcover
    • Dimensions - 7.5" W x 5.2" H x 0.8" D
    • Genre - Nature & Wildlife
    • Publisher - Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Publication date - 11-16-2021
    • Page count - 208
    • ISBN - 9780374109660
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3 years ago
from Kernville, CA

Amidst its pandemoniums, this collection has gems

I've said it before. Amy Leach makes this planet seem like a fantasy world, with musings reminiscent of fairy tales, leading us through her wild trains of thought. Leach's mind is populated with a deep attention to nature and a whole lot of whimsical words. I absolutely loved her *Things That Are.* Though her latest essay collection does not grab me as fiercely, I will contend that "Beanstan for Pet" and "Beasts in the Margins" are worth the price of a ticket on Leach's most recent thought train. [Thanks to Farrar, Straus and Giroux @fsgbooks and NetGalley for an opportunity to read an advanced reader copy of this book in exchange for my opinion.]

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