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The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors by Erika Howsare
3 reviews
nbonarski's review
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
A lovely book about the entwined relationship of man and deer. Covering symbolism, funeral traditions, hunting and man's influence on deer and our role in deer population control and care. Primarily focused on USA history of white tail.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death
Moderate: Blood and Car accident
Minor: Colonisation, Slavery, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Gore, and Excrement
The mild warnings are used in historical recalling and are stated in a matter of fact way. Sections of the book describe deer death and deer processing. Includes descriptions of deer-car collisions.kitkaty731's review
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
4.25
For a moment I thought the book was just an excuse for the author to go to fun places in Central Virginia but that was completely wrong! A thoughtful and beautifully written book about the beauty and horror of nature, of life and death, and of our place in the ecosystem. Makes me want a venison burger.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gore and Animal death
marywahlmeierbracciano's review
challenging
informative
slow-paced
4.75
In The Age of Deer, Erika Howsare details the rich history of deer across cultures and contexts—from their hoofprints in the earth to their envied crowns of antlers; in stories and art, forests and gardens, crosshairs and truck beds. The resulting narrative is largely about our human relationship with deer—at times symbiotic and reverent, then grotesque, dominating. The author approaches the topic of hunting with an outsider’s trepidation, but her journalistic immersion into that world completely changed my perspective. I savored this book—its stunning, thought-provoking presence—slowly. I’ll never look at a deer the same way again.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cultural appropriation, Death, Gore, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, and Blood
Moderate: Car accident
Minor: Colonisation and Racism
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