NICOLE WALKER is the author of The After-Normal: Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a Changing Planet, Sustainability: A Love Story, and A Survival Guide for Life in the Ruins among other books. Her work has been published in Orion, Boston Review, Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, The Normal School, and elsewhere. Recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and noted in multiple editions of The Best American Essays, Walker is nonfiction editor at Diagram and Professor at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona.
"Candidly personal...Walker frames the contrasting concepts of
stability versus risk, abundance versus dearth, self-sufficiency
versus reliance within the context of the larger global imperatives
of climate change, pollution, and sustainability. The result is the
kind of deeply thoughtful and relatable discussion one might have
with one's best friends around a dinner table, back in the day when
one could safely do that kind of thing." --BOOKLIST
"[Walker] produces observations as beautifully written as they are
thoughtful...An effective illumination of the profound difference
between right thought and right action.'" --KIRKUS REVIEWS
"This is some brilliant, snappy, poetic, serious, hilarious stuff."
--CRAIG CHILDS, author of Virga and Bone
"Walker plays her way linguistically deep into the grotesque and
marvelous realities of what it means to live in a female body and
to depend on other bodies--chicken, raven, pig, veal, cougar,
husband and child--for one's sustenance. I woke from this book as
from a sweet and slightly dirty dream, sex and cooking swirling in
my mind, saying yes and yes to the bizarre beauty of a fleshly
existence." --ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING, author of Zoologies
"Walker gathers seemingly disparate scraps of earthly experience
and sniffs out their secret connections before stitching them
together into the sort of tapestry that is as colorful as it is
interrogative, as disarming as it is bursting with light."
--MATTHEW GAVIN FRANK, author of Preparing the Ghost
"Walker's meditative gaze ranges from Pringles to mushrooms to pork
belly, from childhood to coming of age to pregnancy and parenthood.
To think about food is to think about life, and Walker does so with
brilliant complexity and insight." --BICH MINH NGUYEN, author of
Stealing Buddha's Dinner
"This book is more than funny, more than tough. It's about
appetite--food as, life as, place as, memory as, hope as--and about
how, through the act of articulation itself, we can make a meal of
life's pain and peace." --CHRISTOPHER COKINOS, author of Bodies, of
the Holocene
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