This collection of essays was featured last month as one of our best new book releases:
Late Migrations:
A Natural History of Love and Loss
Margaret Renkl
Hardback: Milkweed Editions, 2019.
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Late Migrations is, to my mind, a perfect book to read in the summer. Renkl scatters short autobiographical essays in between short nature pieces, so that her life story and her life’s passion intertwine, like a fence post and a trumpet vine. For readers lucky enough to associate summer with family vacations, where cousins, parents and grandparents might all squeeze together into campers or cabins, Renkl summons up memories of familial closeness tinged with an acute adult awareness of how fleeting everything is.
Listen to the full review of Late Migrations by Margaret Renkl by noted NPR reviewer Maureen Corrigan:
C. Christopher Smith is the founding editor of The Englewood Review of Books. He is also author of a number of books, including most recently How the Body of Christ Talks: Recovering the Practice of Conversation in the Church (Brazos Press, 2019). Connect with him online at: C-Christopher-Smith.com