The Hopes of Snakes and Other Tales from the Urban Landscape
By Lisa Couturier (Beacon Press / $23.00)
Having trouble hearing the call of the wild over all the traffic noise? You’re not alone—as of this decade, a majority of Americans live in urban centers. Nature might seem far away amid the concrete and glass, but, as Lisa Couturier reminds us in this collection of essays, even the most urbanized landscape harbors creatures “as deserving of reverence and respect as any inhabiting wilder terrains.” Couturier shows us the city’s creatures “flying, swimming, slithering, and crawling” among us, reawakening our innate connection to the natural world.
— Beth Duris
