{"product_id":"fox-and-i-an-uncommon-friendship","title":"Fox and I: An Uncommon Friendship","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the PEN\/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award * 2022 Nautilus Book Awards Gold Winner * Shortlisted for the John Burroughs Medal * Finalist for the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize * Shortlisted for a Reading the West Book Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eInstant \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Bestseller * A \u003ci\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year * 2021 Summer Reading Pick by \u003ci\u003eBuzzfeed\u003c\/i\u003e * \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e* \u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e * \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e * \u003ci\u003eGood Morning America\u003c\/i\u003e * \u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e * \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"The book everyone will be talking about. . . . Full of tenderness and understanding.\"--\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn \"extraordinary\" (\u003ci\u003eOprah Daily\u003c\/i\u003e) memoir about the friendship between a solitary woman and a wild fox.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Catherine Raven finished her PhD in biology, she built herself a tiny cottage on an isolated plot of land in Montana. She was as emotionally isolated as she was physically, but she viewed the house as a way station, a temporary rest stop where she could gather her nerves and fill out applications for what she hoped would be a real job that would help her fit into society. In the meantime, she taught remotely and led field classes in nearby Yellowstone National Park.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen one day she realized that a mangy-looking fox was showing up on her property every afternoon at 4:15 p.m. She had never had a regular visitor before. How do you even talk to a fox? She brought out her camping chair, sat as close to him as she dared, and began reading to him from \u003ci\u003eThe Little Prince\u003c\/i\u003e. Her scientific training had taught her not to anthropomorphize animals, yet as she grew to know him, his personality revealed itself and they became friends.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the fox, Catherine learned the single most important thing about loneliness: we are never alone when we are connected to the natural world. Friends, however, cannot save each other from the uncontained forces of nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFox and I\u003c\/i\u003e is a poignant and remarkable tale of friendship, growth, and coping with inevitable loss--and of how that loss can be transformed into meaning. It is both a timely tale of solitude and belonging as well as a timeless story of one woman whose immersion in the natural world will change the way we view our surroundings--each tree, weed, flower, stone, or fox.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1954118112\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781954118119\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Raven, Catherine\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Spiegel \u0026amp; Grau\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Spiegel \u0026 Grau","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Jun 2022)","offer_id":46081564999877,"sku":"9781954118119","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781954118119.jpg?v=1776047284","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/fox-and-i-an-uncommon-friendship","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}