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The Comfort of Crows by Margaret Renkl – book cover

The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

By Margaret Renkl

Biographies and Memoirs

Margaret Renkl presents a literary devotional: fifty-two chapters that follow the creatures and plants in her backyard over the course of a year. Along the way, we also glimpse the changing rhythms of a human life. Grown children, unexpectedly home…

Release Date
2023
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Our Review

Margaret Renkl presents a literary devotional: fifty-two chapters that follow the creatures and plants in her backyard over the course of a year. Along the way, we also glimpse the changing rhythms of a human life. Grown children, unexpectedly home during the pandemic, prepare to depart once more. Birdsong and night-blooming flowers evoke generations past. With fifty-two original color artworks by Billy Renkl