Kirjahaku

Set in the 1930s, and spanning the globe, THE GOOD ECHO is the story of a marriage between controversial nutritionist and dentist Clifford Bell and his quietly courageous wife Frances. After their young son dies from an infected root canal Clifford performs, Clifford and Frances seek to escape their grief through unconventional means, traveling from Ohio to Alaska to Sudan, to substantiate a theory of which Clifford’ s colleagues are skeptical. Narrated in turn by Frances and Clifford, and by the ghost of their son Benjamin, The Good Echo is composed of postcards and bedtime stories, folktales and family legends, travel and research notes. The Good Echo celebrates the healing that can arise through sustained curiosity, and how our deepest sadness sometimes initiates the boldest adventures of our lives.

The stories in We Are a Teeming Wilderness imagines the past with a keen awareness of the present, and vice versa, through a collection of characters-from microorganisms to hosiery salesmen to clairvoyants-who are bizarre, familiar, pathological, comic, sympathetic, foolish, and wise, sometimes all at once. Readers will be transported to near and distant pasts and speculative realities, while captivated by anthropologies at once historical, mythic, scientific, and intimately personal.

The stories in We Are a Teeming Wilderness imagines the past with a keen awareness of the present, and vice versa, through a collection of characters-from microorganisms to hosiery salesmen to clairvoyants-who are bizarre, familiar, pathological, comic, sympathetic, foolish, and wise, sometimes all at once. Readers will be transported to near and distant pasts and speculative realities, while captivated by anthropologies at once historical, mythic, scientific, and intimately personal.