Free Event: Talk & Book Signing

CARA BENSON in conversation with KATHRYN MILES

WHEN: August 4 at 7pm

WHERE: Left Bank Books

An Armsfull of Birds: A Personal Field Guide to Love, Loss, and Commitment is a climate memoir about developing deeply held commitments to ourselves, to those we love, and ultimately to the ailing natural world. Cara is the perfect guide for this journey. As an addict, she crawled through subway tunnels and partnered with an abusive man. When she came face to face with her own death, she chose life. Her journey of survival led her into recovery and ultimately to Jon, the man with whom she cultivated a relationship as a lifetime partner.

When Cara lost Jon to suicide and retreated into her grief, she also retreated into the woods of upstate New York where she found more grief in her observation of the effects of climate change. She came to realize that the lessons she learned from loving Jon could be applied to her relationship with the non-human world. Her daily life became a sort of field guide for how to live with a deep and abiding commitment to the future of the planet.

Joining Cara in conversation is Kathryn Miles, journalist and author most recently of Trailed: One Woman’ s Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders.