Description: Personal essays tying a woman's love of the natural world to her own experiences as an adoptive mother.
Review Quotes: "Quinn's prose--burnished by her deep knowledge of the natural world and by the honesty and eloquence with which she shares her fears and desires--knocks me flat. Nature, she shows us, is both magnifying glass and mirror. Through wasps and rocks and salamanders, we may better know our own strange selves. Quinn plants her muck boots in no one's footsteps." --Mary Roach, author of Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void