Book launch: Cara Benson presents An Armsfull of Birds: A Personal Field Guide to Love, Loss, and Commitment
In conversation with Amy Shearn
An Armsfull of Birds is a literary memoir about addiction, recovery, losing her partner to suicide, and climate grief. It tells the story of developing deeply held commitments to ourselves, to those we love, and ultimately to the ailing natural world.
Early praise includes:
“I opened it up to read the first few pages and then spent five hours reading the rest. Beautifully done. Poignant, human, authentic.” Jenny Lawson, The Bloggess and #1 NY Times bestselling author of How To Be Okay When It's Not Okay.
"This is a book about many profound things, but one of them is healing, and in particular the healing possibilities of the physical world around us. Of course, as Benson recognizes, healing needs to—and can—go both ways. A valuable book!" Bill McKibben, author of Here Comes the Sun
Cara Benson's writing has been published in The New York Times, Boston Review, Orion, Sierra Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Terrain, and selected for Best American Poetry.