{"product_id":"the-everybody-ensemble-donkeys-essays-and-other-pandemoniums-9781250858856","title":"The Everybody Ensemble: Donkeys, Essays, and Other Pandemoniums","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn short, gloriously inventive essays, the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhiting Award-winning author \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmy Leach's \u003ci\u003eThe Everybody Ensemble\u003c\/i\u003e invites us to see and celebrate our oddball, interconnected world\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHumans, please turn your guns into kazoos.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAre you feeling dismay, despair, disillusion? Need a break from the ho-hum, the hopeless, and the hurtful? Feel certain that there's a version of our world that doesn't break down into tiny categories of alliance but brings everybody together into one clattering, sometimes discordant but always welcoming chorus of glorious pandemonium? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmy Leach, the celebrated author of the transcendent \u003ci\u003eThings That Are\u003c\/i\u003e, invites you into \u003ci\u003eThe Everybody Ensemble\u003c\/i\u003e, an effervescent tonic of a book. These short, wildly inventive essays are filled with praise songs, poetry, ingenious critique, soul-lifting philosophy, music theory, and whimsical but scientific trips into nature. Here, you will meet platypuses, Tycho Brahe and his moose, barnacle goslings, medieval mystics, photosynthetic bacteria, and a wholly fresh representation of the biblical Job. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEqual parts call to reason and to joy, this book is an irrepressible celebration of our oddball, interconnected world. \u003ci\u003eThe Everybody Ensemble\u003c\/i\u003e delivers unexpected wisdom and a wake-up call that sounds from within.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-13349956\"\u003eAmy Leach\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/08\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.60h x 4.90w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250858856\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1250858852\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-NAT\"\u003eNature\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-NAT024000\"\u003eEssays\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-NAT\"\u003eNature\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-NAT001000\"\u003eAnimals | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-SCI\"\u003eScience\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-SCI020000\"\u003eLife Sciences | Ecology\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmy Leach\u003c\/b\u003e grew up in Texas and earned her MFA from the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Essays\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Science and Nature Writing\u003c\/i\u003e, and numerous other publications, including \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Public Space\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOrion\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTin House\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Award, and a Pushcart Prize. Her first book was \u003ci\u003eThings That Are\u003c\/i\u003e. Leach lives in Montana.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44489950232813,"sku":"9781250858856","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_a5b2fff2-6158-4d12-a2ad-92ba259e557e.jpg?v=1700873319","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/the-everybody-ensemble-donkeys-essays-and-other-pandemoniums-9781250858856","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}