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We Loved It All: A Memory of Life

By Lydia Millet
We Loved It All: A Memory of Life by Lydia Millet digital book - Fable

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Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by the Washington Post, Oprah Daily, and Literary Hub

This lucent anti-memoir from celebrated novelist Lydia Millet explores the pain and joy of being a parent, child, and human at a moment when the richness of the planet’s life is deeply threatened.

Across more than a dozen acclaimed works of fiction, readers have become intimate with Lydia Millet’s distinctive voice and sly wit. We Loved It All, her first nonfiction book, combines the precision of fact with the power of narrative to evoke our enmeshment with the more-than-human world.

Emerging from Millet’s quarter century of wildlife and climate advocacy, We Loved it All marries scenes from her life with moments of nearness to “the others”— the animals and plants with whom we share the earth. Accounts of fears and failures, jobs and friendships, childhood and motherhood are interspersed with exquisite accounts of nonhumans and arresting meditations on the power of story to shape the future.

Seeking to understand why we immerse ourselves in the domestic and immediate, turning away from more sweeping views, she examines how grand cultural myths can deny our longing for the company of nature and deprive us of its charisma and inspiration. In a thrilling distillation of experience and emotion, she evinces the familiar sense of feeling both well-meaning and powerless—a creature subject to forces that are baffling in their immensity. The fear and grief of extinction and climate change, Millet suggests, are forms of love that might be turned to resistance.

We Loved It All shimmers with curiosity and laconic humor yet addresses with reverence the most urgent crises of our day. An incantatory, bewitching devotional to the vast and precious bestiary of the earth, it asks that we extend to other living beings the protection they deserve—the simple grace of continued existence.

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“We Loved It All - A Memory of Life written by Lydia Millet and narrated by Xe Sands is a fascinating collection of essays that are part memoir, part observation about the natural world around us Xe Sands has a beautiful voice which is perfect for this audiobook, gentle, insightful and clearly with a deep empathy for the content. Perfect The book is a deeply personal account and this is reflected in the narrative. It is a celebration of Millets family and her beginnings on the road of conservationist. It is a record of species already extinct and of those on the brink. It is an absolutely fascinating listen and a more gentle approach to raising awareness of a very, very important issue Thank you very much to Netgalley, Dreamscape Media, the author Lydia Millet and narrator Xe Sands for this illuminating and heartfelt ALC. My review is left voluntarily and all opinions are my own”

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