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Only a Little While Here

Only a Little While Here

Ospina, María
Cleary, Heather

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General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $28.00

ISBN10: 1668097087
ISBN13: 9781668097083
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: Mar 31 2026
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.70
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Winner of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize - Winner of Colombia's National Novel Award

This prizewinning novel interweaves four animal odysseys in a gripping, adventurous meditation on migration and displacement in the inextricable human and natural worlds.

In Only a Little While Here, award-winning author María Ospina evokes the gratification to be found through close, humble observation of nature. With characteristic precision and intensity, Ospina trains our attention on the lives of five creatures: a migratory songbird dazzled by city lights, an orphaned porcupine saved by kindness, two dogs grieving the loss of their human companions, and a determined beetle transported to a vast, unimaginable world. The surprising drama of their lives reveals the fragility and power of belonging, and what it means to create--or lose--a home. Along the way, our narrator models the attentiveness needed to mend the rift between humans and nonhuman creatures and celebrates animals' often-overlooked status as witnesses of our shared world.

Alive with eagle-eyed curiosity, Only a Little While Here is ecological fiction at its most soul-stirring.

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