How to Be a Living Thing - by Mari Andrew (Hardcover)

Name: How to Be a Living Thing - by Mari Andrew (Hardcover)
Brand: Penguin Life
SKU: 94337252
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A luminous collection of essays exploring the lessons we can incorporate from the animal world in order to live more fully as humans A shelter cat teaches us that our damaged parts, too, are worthy of love... a captive orca shows us that inconvenience and difficulties are the blessing of a full life... a gorilla teaches the universal language of grief... a group of oysters who prove that magic and science can and do coexist... In How to Be a Living Thing, Mari Andrew reflects on the ways animals mirror, challenge, and deepen our experiences as living creatures in the world.
About the Author: Mari Andrew is a writer, artist, and speaker based in New York City.
256 Pages
Nature, Animals

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Book Synopsis

A luminous collection of essays exploring the lessons we can incorporate from the animal world in order to live more fully as humans

A shelter cat teaches us that our damaged parts, too, are worthy of love... a captive orca shows us that inconvenience and difficulties are the blessing of a full life... a gorilla teaches the universal language of grief... a group of oysters who prove that magic and science can and do coexist...

In How to Be a Living Thing, Mari Andrew reflects on the ways animals mirror, challenge, and deepen our experiences as living creatures in the world. Through her personal stories and explorations into the inner world of other creatures, Mari illuminates the opportunities and wonders of being a living thing. Highly-sensitive horses, overly-cautious donkeys, and silly social rats are just a few of the animal teachers who offer us glimpses of the glories and shortcomings of humanity.

Heartwarming, funny, and insightful, How to Be a Living Thing reminds us that we are perfectly imperfect beings, capable of profound connection with each other and with all other species of the remarkable natural world that surrounds us.

About the Author

Mari Andrew is a writer, artist, and speaker based in New York City. She is the author of Am I There Yet? and My Inner Sky and writes the newsletter Out of the Blue on Substack.

Dimensions (Overall): 8.25 Inches (H) x 5.5 Inches (W) x .56 Inches (D)

Weight: .74 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Sub-Genre: Animals

Genre: Nature

Number of Pages: 256

Publisher: Penguin Life

Theme: General

Format: Hardcover

Author: Mari Andrew

Language: English

Street Date: July 15, 2025

TCIN: 94337252

UPC: 9780593831663

Item Number (DPCI): 247-51-3399

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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Estimated ship weight: 0.74 pounds

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