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    Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear
    Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear
    Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear
    Audiobook15 hours

    Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear

    Written by Erica Berry

    Narrated by Lessa Lamb

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    "Lessa Lamb narrates with a fine tone and timbre. She inhabits the youthful sound and elegant style of this layered audiobook. Her timing and sense of occasion add richness to its informed foray into all things wolf as she captures the drama, fear, and anxiety that underlie the immersive presentation." - AudioFile Magazine (Earphones Award Winner)

    For fans of Helen MacDonald’s H is for Hawk and Mary Roach, Erica Berry’s WOLFISH blends science, history, and cultural criticism in a years-long journey to understand our myths about wolves, and track one legendary wolf, OR-7, from the Wallowa Mountains of Oregon

    "Wolfish starts with a single wolf and spirals through nuanced investigations of fear, gender, violence, and story. A GORGEOUS achievement." —Blair Braverman, author of Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube

    “This is one of those stories that begins with a female body. Hers was crumpled, roadside, in the ash-colored slush between asphalt and snowbank.”

    So begins Erica Berry’s kaleidoscopic exploration of wolves, both real and symbolic. At the center of this lyrical inquiry is the legendary OR-7, who roams away from his familial pack in northeastern Oregon. While charting OR-7’s record-breaking journey out of the Wallowa Mountains, Erica simultaneously details her own coming-of-age as she moves away from home and wrestles with inherited beliefs about fear, danger, femininity, and the body.

    As Erica chronicles her own migration—from crying wolf as a child on her grandfather’s sheep farm to accidentally eating mandrake in Sicily—she searches for new expressions for how to be a brave woman, human, and animal in our warming world. What do stories so long told about wolves tell us about our relationship to fear? How can our society peel back the layers of what scares us? By strategically unspooling the strands of our cultural constructions of predator and prey, and what it means to navigate a world in which we can be both, Erica bridges the gap between human fear and grief through the lens of a wrongfully misunderstood species.

    Wolfish is for anybody trying to navigate a world that is often scary. A powerful, timeless, and necessary book for our current and future generations.

    A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books.

    Editor's Note

    Memoir of the wolf and us…

    What can our relationship with the elusive wolf teach us about ourselves? “Wolfish” begs this question and more in a blend of natural history, cultural analysis, and coming-of-age memoir. Berry grounds her work in OR-7, the first confirmed wild wolf on the U.S.’s West Coast since the mid-20th century. Along the way, she explores the ideas of predator and prey — and how humans often confuse the two. Perfect for fans of “H Is for Hawk.”

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateFeb 21, 2023
    ISBN9781250882264
    Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear
    Author

    Erica Berry

    Erica Berry is a writer based in her hometown of Portland, Oregon. She has an MFA from the University of Minnesota, where she was a College of Liberal Arts Fellow. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times Magazine, The Yale Review, Outside Magazine, Catapult, The Atlantic, Guernica, and elsewhere. Winner of the Steinberg Essay Prize and the Kurt Brown Prize in Nonfiction, she has received fellowships and funding from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Tin House, the Ucross Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board, and the Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources. A former Writer-in-Residence with the National Writers Series in Traverse City, Michigan, she is currently a Writer-in-the-Schools with Literary Arts in Portland. Wolfish is her first book.

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      I loved it so much! Remaining word count ok yes