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88/100Author:
Ross Gay
Publisher:
Algonquin Books
Date:
October 25, 2022
A collection of long-form essays on joy, in which Ross Gay turns his curious mind to everything from skateboarding and cover songs, basketball and race, dancing and academia, death and laughter, and, always, the garden and the natural world.
What The Reviewers Say
I worried. From gratitude to delight to joy … had becoming a best-selling author turned this man’s beautiful mind into a brand?.
... surveys an assortment of topics drawn from Gay's own experience that display his gift for intensely observing the world around him.
He writes movingly, even urgently, about contributing to a shared project, whether building a communal orchard or sharing seeds, plants and gardening know-how with others in a community. There is also a generosity of spirit.
Gay has an affinity for sentences that twist like winding country roads, stitched together with a profusion of commas and semicolons.
