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126 N. Marina St., Prescott, AZ 86301 ~ [email protected] ~ 928-863-3232 NATURAL HISTORY BOOK CLUB FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2018 @ 9:00AM The SOUND of a WILD SNAIL EATING by ELISABETH TOVA BAILEY ELISABETH TOVA BAILEY’s natural history/memoir, The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating, recounts her year-long observations of a wild Maine woodland snail. The true story of her interspecies relationship is reaching a general international audience of both genders and all ages and is finding special homes in the fields of literature, natural history, medical humanities, and education. Bailey’s essays and short stories have been published in The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine, The Missouri Review, Northwest Review, and the Sycamore Review. She has received the William Saroyan International Prize for Nonfiction, the John Burroughs Medal Award for Distinguished Natural History, a National Outdoor Book Award in Natural History Literature, several Pushcart Prize nominations, and a Notable Essay Listing in Best American Essays. Bailey is on the Writers Council for the National Writing Project. She lives in Maine. “A charming, delicate meditation on the meaning of life.” – Kirkus Review “Insight, science, and poetry, and scientific poetry. . . a page- turner with all the draw of a detective story and all the heart of a romance. . .” – Inquiring Mind

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126N.MarinaSt.,Prescott,[email protected]~928-863-3232

NATURAL HISTORY BOOK CLUB

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2018 @ 9:00AM

The SOUND of a WILD SNAIL EATING

by ELISABETH TOVA BAILEY

ELISABETH TOVA BAILEY’s natural history/memoir, The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating, recounts her year-long observations of a wild Maine woodland snail. The true story of her interspecies relationship is reaching a general international audience of both genders and all ages and is finding special homes in the fields of literature, natural history, medical humanities, and education.

Bailey’s essays and short stories have been published in The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine, The Missouri Review, Northwest Review, and the Sycamore Review. She has received the William Saroyan International Prize for Nonfiction, the John Burroughs Medal Award for Distinguished Natural History, a National Outdoor Book Award in Natural History Literature, several Pushcart Prize nominations, and a Notable Essay Listing in Best American Essays. Bailey is on the Writers Council for the National Writing Project. She lives in Maine.

“A charming, delicate meditation on the meaning of life.” – Kirkus Review

“Insight, science, and poetry, and scientific poetry. . . a page-turner with all the draw of a detective story and all the heart of a romance. . .” – Inquiring Mind