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Tending: How Care Binds the World (Large Print Edition)

Tending: How Care Binds the World (Large Print Edition)

May, Katherine

Paperback

Biographies GeneralMetaphysical GeneralSelf-Help

Publisher Price: $32.00

PREORDER - Expected ship date March 9, 2027

ISBN13: 9798217537525
Publisher: Random House Large Print Publishing
Published: Mar 9 2027
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.81
Language: English
From the New York Times bestselling author of Wintering and Enchantment, a radical reimagining of care: the work we resist and resent, but the thread that binds us together

When her husband falls seriously ill, Katherine May finds herself thrown into the world of multigenerational care, trying to hold together home and family as they spin determinedly apart. Drawn into an endless cycle of domestic and emotional work, she is plagued by spiders, the subject of a lifelong phobia. And yet, in this new era of her life, the spiders now seem to mirror her own labors as she sees them endlessly reweaving their fraying homes, constantly alert to danger through the vibrations of their webs.

Drawing on art, mythology, philosophy and the natural world, Tending is a meditation on what it means to give - and receive - care. Sharply-observed, funny, and tender, it captures the granularity of care, its hardships and its moments of transcendence. We tend to think, now, that life is what happens in-between, and that care is somehow an anomaly, a mistake, writes May. Instead, it is perhaps the most intrinsic part of our humanity. We resent and fear it, but it flows from us, unbidden.

Achingly human, and with one foot always in the wild, Tending is a timely exploration of connection, mortality, and how our duties of care shift radically in midlife. It gives caregivers a visceral visibility, and asks how we can learn to see that unsung work as the beating heart of our survival.

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