The Comfort of Crows: a Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl

 aired the week of September 16, 2024

The Comfort of Crows: a Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl is a beautifully illustrated volume of nature essays each one encompassing a week of the year following the seasons in Renkl's hometown of Nashville, Tennessee. Renkl an essayist for the New York Times makes the reader think about personal interactions with the natural world and how our actions affect the plants an animals around us.  Powerful and though provoking this book is recommended for fans of Gathering: a Memoir of a Seed Saver by Diane Ott Whealy.