How to Be a Living Thing: Meditations on Intuitive Oysters, Hopeful Doves, and Being Human in the World

by Mari Andrew

A luminous collection of essays exploring the lessons we can incorporate from the animal world in order to live more fully as humans

A shelter cat teaches us that our damaged parts, too, are worthy of love... a captive orca shows us that inconvenience and difficulties are the blessing of a full life... a gorilla teaches the universal language of grief... a group of oysters who prove that magic and science can and do coexist...

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593831667
• ISBN13: 9780593831663
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Penguin Life
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.3"