By paying ecstatic attention to grasses, insects, birds, and animals, Catherine Raven allows us to hear what nature is saying to us. "If Thoreau had read The Little Prince, he would have written Fox and I.”- Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi After you read this book, you will experience animals in a new and marvelous way.” - Temple Grandin, author of Animals in Translation “Fox and I will make you feel deeply about our relationship with animals and nature. An uplifting, fable-like true story, it not only reveals the power of friendship and our interconnectedness with the natural world but introduces an original, imaginative, stunning new literary voice. Fox and I is also a poignant and dramatic tale of coping with inevitable loss and how that loss can be transformed into meaning. But friends cannot always save each other from the uncontained forces of nature. Her scientific training had taught her not to anthropomorphize animals, but as she grew to know him, his personality revealed itself-and he became her friend.
How do you even talk to a fox? One day she brought out her camping chair, sat as near to him as she dared, and began reading to him from The Little Prince. She had never had a regular visitor before.
One day, she realized that the mangy-looking fox who had been appearing on her property was now showing up every day at 4:15, positioning himself near a lone forget-me-not near the house. She built a house on an isolated plot of land in Montana, teaching remotely and leading field courses in the National Parks.
in biology while working as a janitor and living in her car (which lacked a reverse gear) or on abandoned construction sites. More at home in nature than among people, she worked for many years as a National Parks ranger, eventually earning a Ph.D. Both a new window onto the natural world and the introduction of a remarkable literary talent.Ĭatherine Raven left home at 15, fleeing an abusive, disdainful father and an indifferent mother. A wild fox befriends a solitary woman at her home in Montana, and their relationship transforms them both in this inspiring, surprising, and often funny memoir.
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