{"product_id":"9780374109660","title":"The Everybody Ensemble: Donkeys, Essays, and Other Pandemoniums","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn short, gloriously inventive essays, \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\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHumans, please turn your guns into kazoos.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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. For readers of Ross Gay, Eula Biss, Anne Lamott, Annie Dillard, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and even Lewis Carroll, these twenty-four essays will be a perfect match.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47052193530096,"sku":"9780374109660","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780374109660_p0.jpg?v=1763690950","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780374109660","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}