An impassioned and moving plea for a better relationship between the naturalworld and humankind from one of our most treasured writers. Constructing anarrative ... » 

An impassioned and moving plea for a better relationship between the naturalworld and humankind from one of our most treasured writers. Constructing anarrative of hopeful acts Williams travels the world to see how broken piecesof history and earth can create something new and whole. She learns about theart of mosaic in Ravenna Italy. She studies the prairie dogs on the brink ofextinction in the American Southwest. And she travels to a small village inRwanda where she joins survivors of the genocide to build a memorial from therubble of war. Sparking social change and healing Williamss journey forms asingular meditation on how the natural and human worlds both collide andconnect in violence and beauty and in tumult and peace. «