After receiving her PhD in biology, Raven lived in an isolated cottage in Montana, teaching remotely and leading field classes in Yellowstone National Park. Her only regular visitor was a fox, with whom she developed a friendship and from whom she learned about growth, loss, and belonging. <\/p>\n
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!<\/b><\/p>\n
Winner of The PEN\/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award * 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<\/b><\/p>\n
"The book everyone will be talking about … full of tenderness and understanding. —The New York Times<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n An <\/strong>"extraordinary<\/strong>" (Oprah Daily<\/em>) memoir about the friendship between a solitary woman and a wild fox.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n When 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.<\/p>\n Then 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 The Little Prince<\/em>. 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.<\/p>\n From the fox, Catherine learned the single most important thing about loneliness: we are never alone when we are connected to the natural world<\/strong>. Friends, however, cannot save each other from the uncontained forces of nature. <\/p>\n Fox and I<\/em> is a poignant and remarkable tale of friendship, growth, and coping with inevitable loss<\/strong>–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.<\/p>\n Fox and I: An Uncommon Friendship (Hardcover)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After receiving her PhD in biology, Raven lived in an isolated cottage in Montana, teaching remotely and leading field classes in Yellowstone National Park. Her only regular visitor was a fox, with whom she developed a friendship and from whom she learned about growth, loss, and belonging. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Winner of The […]\n","protected":false},"featured_media":47103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[1772],"product_tag":[72221],"class_list":["post-47104","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-all-books","product_tag-uncommon-friendship","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aigroupfood.net\/wm-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/47104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aigroupfood.net\/wm-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aigroupfood.net\/wm-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aigroupfood.net\/wm-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aigroupfood.net\/wm-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aigroupfood.net\/wm-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aigroupfood.net\/wm-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=47104"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aigroupfood.net\/wm-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=47104"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aigroupfood.net\/wm-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=47104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/strong>A Christian Science Monitor<\/i> Best Book of the Year * 2021 Summer Reading Pick by BUZZFEED * NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW * KIRKUS * TIME MAGAZINE * GOOD MORNING AMERICA * PEOPLE MAGAZINE * THE WASHINGTON POST<\/strong>
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