An ambitious, multilayered work that interweaves four unique journeys across Continents and centuries “Ambitious and capacious ... As the reader journeys through this atmospheric and accomplished novel, they discover that the natural world around us is loud enough for those willing to listen, and Pariat has found the language for it.”—The Guardian  “Wise, funny, touching, wide-ranging, deep-delving;whip-smart dialogue and graceful, paced sentences, thousands upon thousands of them. Written by a novelist with the eye of a poet, and a poet with the narrative powers of a novelist, this is a book that needed to be written, that tells true things, and is entirely its own being.”—Robert MacFarlane, author of The Lost Words and Underland