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No less strange or wonderful : essays in curiosity / written and illuminated by A. Kendra Greene.

Greene, A. Kendra, (author,, illustrator.).

Summary:

"Celebrated author and artist A. Kendra Greene's No Less Strange or Wonderful is a brilliant and generous meditation-on the complex wonder of being alive, on how to pay attention to even the tiniest (sometimes strangest) details that glitter with insight, whimsy, and deep humanity, if only we'd really look. In twenty-six sparkling essays, illuminated through both text and image, Greene is trying to make sense-of anything, really-but especially the things that matter most in life: love, connection, death, grief, the universe, meaning, nothingness, and everythingness. Through a series of encounters with strangers, children, and animals, the wild merges with the domestic; the everyday meets the sublime. Each essay returns readers to our smallest moments and our largest ones in a book that makes us realize-through its exuberant language, its playful curation, and its delightful associative leapfrogging-that they are, in fact, one in the same"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781963108088
ISBN: 1963108086
Physical Description: 286 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Edition: First US edition.
Publisher: Portland, Oregon : Tin House, 2025.
Copyright: ©2025

Content descriptions

General Note:	"Interior design by Beth Steidle".
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	The witching hour -- Speaking of basheis -- Winston becomes a speck -- Love is in the airport -- Wild Chilean baby pears -- It looks like a tiger -- Intelligent design -- Until it pops -- The two times you meet the devil -- Sack of Gravel -- Megalonyx jeffersonii -- The ghost of Christmas always -- The half story -- The sorcerer has gone to Italy -- I can feel your human fingers -- Ted Cruz is a sentient bag of wasps -- By degrees -- Flip -- To ashes -- My mother greets the inanimate -- Captivated -- Hoax -- The one -- Given -- On letting the universe in -- People lie to giraffe.