It's Hard to Be an Animal by Robert Isaacs Gibbs Smith Agnes’s older children find their

Agnes’s older children find their own ways to get a safe distance from their mother

No physical combat would take place along this frontier: the risk of nuclear annihilation was too high for that

This distancing from nature has sparked crises in mental health

Hernan Diaz’s TRUST elegantly puts these competing narratives into conversation with one another—and in tension with the perspective of one woman bent on disentangling fact from fiction

Crack-and-peel backing

It's Hard to Be an Animal by Robert Isaacs Gibbs Smith Agnes’s older children find theirStrolling through Central Park on a blind date with the hilarious, irrepressible Molly Bent, Henry Parsons is feeling hopeful for the first time in years when a migratory warbler, the sweetest of little birds, tells him to f*** off. A gentle soul, troubled enough by the unkindness of fellow humans, Henry tries to brush the moment aside as a hallucination. But soon he's hearing voices everywhere: dogs mocking their owners, sparrows fat shaming each