Gayle Boss

Wild Hope (MP3-Download)

Stories for Lent from the Vanishing Ungekürzte Lesung. 224 Min.
Sprecher: Boss, Gayle / Illustrator: Klein, David G.

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Produktbeschreibung

This is a beautifully elegant, deeply excellent book, pursued by grace on every page, in every stunning illustration." —Carl Safina, ecologist, NYT bestselling author of Beyond Words and Becoming Wild; MacArthur Fellow and founder of The Safina Center From the bestselling author of All Creation Waits — a beautiful book of hope for Lent, filled with twenty-five of Earth's rare and wild creatures. Their stories, while tragic and uncomfortable, will wake readers to greater compassion and hope. Pangolins and polar bears, olms, lemurs, and leopards. We share this planet with creatures magnificent, delicate, intricate—and now vanishing at a faster rate than at any other time in Earth's history. Spend Lent with twenty-five of these endangered animals. Vivid descriptions of the miracle of each creature and the peril it faces will fill readers with wonder and grief at what these animals suffer on a planet shaped by human choices. Their true and difficult stories will wake readers to a greater compassion—which is what Lent, meaning "springtime," has always been for. These stories also wake in us a wild hope that from all this death and ruin something new could rise. The promise of Lent is that something new will rise. In fact, as these stories attest, our hope, though wild, is not impossible and is already loose in the world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Paraclete Press
• Altersempfehlung: 14 bis 99 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781640605732
• Artikelnr.: 76142951

Autorenporträt

Gayle Boss writes from West Michigan, where she was born and raised. Her lifelong love of animals and her immersion in spiritual texts and practices have melded in poems and essays that explore how relationships with animals specifically, and an attentive presence in the natural world generally, restore us to our deepest selves. She is the author of Wild Hope: Stories for Lent from the Vanishing, and All Creation Waits: The Advent Mystery of New Beginnings. Gayle lives with her husband. "Writing about animals and the human-animal bond is the writing that enthralls me. I’ve found it true, what the thirteenth-century mystic Meister Eckhart said: 'God is equally near in all creatures.' Many human creatures and two corgis have loved me and encouraged my work. Beyond them, the creatures and landscapes of Michigan’s west coast, often wounded, open to me wonder after wonder." -- Gayle Boss