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I love books that bring mythology to life. The central character was intriguing and believable. She was frightening and kind and her rage was totally understandable.
In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. Circe is a strange child - not powerful and terrible, like her father, nor gorgeous and mercenary like her mother. Scorned and rejected, Circe grows up in the shadows, at home in neither the world of gods or mortals. But Circe has a dark power of her own: witchcraft. When her gift…
Magical realism meets the magic of Christmas in this mix of Jewish, New Testament, and Santa stories–all reenacted in an urban psychiatric hospital!
On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argue…
Foster is incapable of writing a boring sentence. He's not only madder than a coot, he's also brilliant. Nobody else would dream up such a project: to try and live as a human from different time periods, experiencing the stream of consciousness of a highly erudite modern human stripped of all of the appurtenances of modern life. It's a fascinating experiment, as was Being Animal, in which he lived as various native UK animals, and the account he creates, with all the interesting diverticulae, is equally so. For fans of playing with language and ideas, and anyone who likes sidelong looks at humanity.
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ATLANTIC, KIRKUS REVIEWS, AND NEW STATESMAN
A radically immersive exploration of three pivotal moments in the evolution of human consciousness, asking what kinds of creatures humans were, are, and might yet be
How did humans come to be who we are? In his marvelous, eccentric, and widely lauded book Being a Beast, legal scholar, veterinary surgeon, and naturalist extraordinaire Charles Foster set out to understand the consciousness of animal species by living as a badger, otter, fox, deer, and swift. Now, he inhabits three crucial periods of human development to understand…
