The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

THE EARTHLY ADVENTURES OF A WOMAN AND A GASTROPOD Winner of the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing Winner of the John Burroughs Medal Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award in Natural History Literature “Brilliant.” —The New York Review of Books “How interesting can a snail be? Entirely captivating, as it turns out. [Bailey] is a marvelous writer, and the marriage of science and poetic mysticism that characterizes this small volume is magical.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune “[A] gem.” —Susan Stamberg, NPR’s Morning Edition “Survival; resilience, and intellectual curiosity . . . Deeply moving. . . Extraordinary.” —Literature and Medicine, the journal of the Institute for the Medical Humanities “An exquisite meditation on the restorative connection between nature and humans . . . As richly layered as the soil she lays down in the snail’s terrarium: loamy, potent, and regenerative.” —The Huffington Post “[A] small, quiet masterpiece, already destined to become a classic.” —The Washington Times