{"product_id":"9781934137819","title":"Invisible Beasts","description":"\u003cb\u003eInternational IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOrion Book Award Finalist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eO, The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e “Title to Pick Up Now”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An amazing feat of imagination.” —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eInvisible Beasts\u003c\/i\u003e is a strange and beautiful meditation on love and seeing, a hybrid of fantasy and field guide, novel and essay, treatise and fable. With one hand it offers a sad commentary on environmental degradation, while with the other it presents a bright, whimsical, and funny exploration of what it means to be human. It’s wonderfully written, crazily imagined, and absolutely original.” —\u003cb\u003eANTHONY DOERR\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eAll the Light We Cannot See\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Shell Collector\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSophie is an amateur naturalist with a rare genetic gift: the ability to see a marvelous kingdom of invisible, sentient creatures that share a vital relationship with humankind. To record her observations, Sophie creates a personal bestiary and, as she relates the strange abilities of these endangered beings, her tales become extraordinary meditations on love, sex, evolution, extinction, truth, and self-knowledge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the tradition of E.O. Wilson’s \u003ci\u003eAnthill, Invisible Beasts\u003c\/i\u003e is inspiring, philosophical, and richly detailed fiction grounded by scientific fact and a profound insight into nature. The fantastic creations within its pages—an ancient animal that uses natural cold fusion for energy, a species of vampire bat that can hear when their human host is lying, a continent-sized sponge living under the ice of Antarctica—illuminate the role that all living creatures play in the environment and remind us of what we stand to lose if we fail to recognize our entwined destinies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSharona Muir\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Telling: Tracing the Secrets of My Father’s Lives.\u003c\/i\u003e The recipient of a Hodder Fellowship and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, her writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eGranta, Orion\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, \u003ci\u003eVirginia Quarterly Review, The Paris Review,\u003c\/i\u003e and elsewhere. She is a Professor of Creative Writing and English at Bowling Green State University. \u003ci\u003eInvisible Beasts\u003c\/i\u003e is her first novel.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bellevue Literary Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47173377065200,"sku":"9781934137819","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781934137819_p0.jpg?v=1763641950","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781934137819","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}