REESES BOOK CLUB PICK NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA beautiful love letter to nature and the world around us.Reese Witherspoon Reeseamp8217s Book Club September amp821724 PickTHE PERFECT GIFT FOR NATURE LOVERS BIRDERS AND GARDENERS WITH ORIGINAL COLOR ART THROUGHOUTamp160 USA TODAY BESTSELLER NATIONAL BESTSELLERamp160 INDIE NEXT PICKFrom the beloved New York Times opinion writer a luminous book that traces the passing of seasons both personal and natural.In The Comfort of Crows Margaret Renkl presents a literary devotional fiftytwo chapters that follow the creatures and plants in her backyard over the course of a year. As we move through the seasonsamp8212from a crow spied on New Yearamp8217s Day its resourcefulness and sense of community setting a theme for the year to the lingering bluebirds of December revisiting the nest box they used in springamp8212what develops is a portrait of joy and grief joy in the ongoing pleasures of the natural world and grief over winters that end too soon and songbirds that grow fewer and fewer.Along the way we also glimpse the changing rhythms of a human life. Grown children unexpectedly home during the pandemic prepare to depart once more. Birdsong and nightblooming flowers evoke generations past. The city and the country where Renkl raised her family transform a little more with each passing day. And the natural world now in visible flux requires every ounce of hope and commitment from the authoramp8212and from us. For as Renkl writes amp8220radiant things are bursting forth in the darkest places in the smallest nooks and deepest cracks of the hidden world.amp8221With fiftytwo original color artworks by the authoramp8217s brother Billy Renkl The Comfort of Crows is a lovely and deeply moving book from a cherished observer of the natural world.