• ISBN13: 9781616206420
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: N/A
• Publisher: Algonquin Books
• Publisher Imprint: Algonquin Books
• Publication Date: September 6, 2016
• Pages: 208
• Original Price: USD 17.99
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 159 grams

<p><b>From the Back Cover</b><br>THE EARTHLY ADVENTURES OF A WOMAN AND A GASTROPOD<br /> <br /><b>Winner of the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing</b><br /><b>Winner of the John Burroughs Medal</b><br /><b>Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award in Natural History Literature</b><br /> <br /> "Brilliant." <b><i>--The New York Review of Books</i></b><br /> <br /> "How interesting can a snail be? Entirely captivating, as it turns out. [Bailey] is a marvelous writer, and the marriage of science and poetic mysticism that characterizes this small volume is magical." <b><i>--Minneapolis Star Tribune</i></b><br /> <br /> "[A] gem." <b>--Susan Stamberg, NPR's <i>Morning Edition</i></b><br /> <br /> "Survival, resilience, and intellectual curiosity . . . Deeply moving. . . Extraordinary." <b><i>--Literature and Medicine</i>, the journal of the Institute for the Medical Humanities</b><br /> <br /> "An exquisite meditation on the restorative connection between nature and humans . . . As richly layered as the soil she lays down in the snail's terrarium: loamy, potent, and regenerative." <b><i>--The Huffington Post </i></b><br /> <br /> "[A] small, quiet masterpiece, already destined to become a classic." <b><i>--The Washington Times</i></b><br /> <br /></p>