Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss

For lovers of the natural world, the poems of Mary Oliver, and the books of Ann Patchett and Delia Owens, I am pleased to introduce an incredibly worthy writer into that sacred circle, Margaret Renkl. Her childhood in Lower Alabama, as well as Birmingham, conjured up memories of my grandmother's home in Fairhope, Alabama, and my childhood in Montgomery. Renkl writes with a wide-eyed wonder and an attention to detail that inspire me to slow down and not take a single thing for granted, whether that be watching an endangered monarch butterfly or realizing that rushing your children to grow up won't end with the freedom you might imagine, but with grief that the miracle has moved on and will not return.