Animals Taught Me Everything
Will be published approx. on 13. October 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
210 pages
979-8-89092-048-5 (ISBN)
Description
What can a wagging tail and soaring wings teach us about a life well lived? "Houston's heart and spirit worked on me like the strongest medicine. This is a book I desperately needed--grateful it fell into my hands!"
--MONA SUSAN POWER, A Council of Dolls
From Icelandic mares and Irish wolfhounds to elephants, leopards, hyenas, and a desert-adapted lioness named Charlie, Pam Houston has learned life's most important lessons from animals. How to play. How to rest. How to love. How to die. How to be present with the dying. How to be present with the living and with the Earth. How to find joy in the least likely places. How to find joy, literally, everywhere. With playful sincerity, Houston finds power and promise in the teachings of our fellow creatures and reminds us that animals are here for us, every day and everywhere.
--MONA SUSAN POWER, A Council of Dolls
From Icelandic mares and Irish wolfhounds to elephants, leopards, hyenas, and a desert-adapted lioness named Charlie, Pam Houston has learned life's most important lessons from animals. How to play. How to rest. How to love. How to die. How to be present with the dying. How to be present with the living and with the Earth. How to find joy in the least likely places. How to find joy, literally, everywhere. With playful sincerity, Houston finds power and promise in the teachings of our fellow creatures and reminds us that animals are here for us, every day and everywhere.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
ISBN-13
979-8-89092-048-5 (9798890920485)
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Pam Houston is the award-winning author of two novels, Contents May Have Shifted and Sight Hound; two short story collections, Cowboys Are My Weakness and Waltzing the Cat; and nonfiction works including Without Exception, Deep Creek, and Air Mail. Houston teaches at UC Davis and the Institute of American Indian Arts, and she co-founded Writing By Writers. She lives on a homestead in Colorado with her husband.