ampampquotAn antidote to the loneliness of our species.ampampquotROBIN WALL KIMMERERampampamp8220A master class in how to love the world.ampampamp8221ampampamp8212MARGARET RENKLA thrilling book about the abounding queerness of the natural world that challenges our expectations of what is normal beautiful and possible.Growing up Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian felt most at home in the swamps and culverts near her house in the Hudson Valley. A child who frequently felt out of place too much of one thing or not enough of another she found acceptance in these settings among other amphibious beings. In snakes snails and above all fungi she saw her own developing identities as a queer neurodivergent person reflected back at herampampamp8212and in them too she found a personal path to a life of science.In Forest Euphoria Kaishian shows us this making of a scientist and introduces readers to the queerness of all the life around us.