Animal Bodies: On Death, Desire, and Other Difficulties (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781496231024)

Longlisted for the 2023 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
Foreword INDIES Bronze Winner in Essays

How do we reckon with our losses? In Animal Bodies Suzanne Roberts explores the link between death and desire and what it means to accept our own animal natures, the parts we most often hide, deny, or consider only with shame--our taboo desires and our grief. In landscapes as diverse as Salamanca's cobbled streets, the Mekong River's floating markets, Fire Island's windswept beaches, Nashville's honky-tonks, and the Sierra Nevada's snowy slopes, Roberts interrogates her memory and tries to make sense of her own private losses (deaths of people and relationships), as well as more public losses, including a mass shooting in her hometown and environmental devastation in the Amazon rainforest.

With lyricism, insight, honesty, and dark humor, these essays illuminate the sometimes terrible beauty of what it means to be human, deepening the conversation on death and grief, sexuality, and the shame that comes from surviving the world in a female body with all of its complexities.

Author: Suzanne Roberts
ISBN-10: 1496231023
ISBN-13: 9781496231024
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2022
Pages: 252
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.50h x 8.40w x 0.50d
Award: Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards - Bronze Medal Winner

Review Citation(s):
Foreword 02/27/2022