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Summertime

Reflections on a Fractured Future

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Summertime

By: Danielle Celermajer
Narrated by: Felicity Jurd
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I went and sat alone where Jimmy has been lying. It is way down in the bush. The light is soft, the air and the earth are cool, and the smell is of leaves and the river. I cannot presume to know what he is doing when he lies here, but it seems that he is taking himself back to an ecology not wrought by the terror of the fires, not fuelled by our violence on the earth. He is letting another earth heal him.

Philosopher Danielle Celermajer's story of Jimmy the pig caught the world's attention during the Black Summer of 2019-20.

Gathered here is that story and others written in the shadow of the bushfires that ravaged Australia. In the midst of the death and grief of animals, humans, trees and ecologies Celermajer asks us to look around - really look around - to become present to all beings who are living and dying through the loss of our shared home.

At once a howl in the forest and an elegy for a country's soul, these meditations are lyrical, profound and heartbreaking.

©2021 Danielle Celermajer (P)2021 Penguin Random House Australia Biological Sciences Environment Nature & Ecology Outdoors & Nature Science
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Despite its tragic topic I loved this book. They say that it’s only on the midst of the most difficult personal challenges that we can truly see ourselves and this memoir proved that - beautifully poetic, deeply sad and full of truth and pure emotion. One I will keep and read again!

beautifully poetic, deeply sad

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This beautiful book is a must to reconnect us back to what is important. The life of all that live on our planet. For us to be responsible not only for ourselves but for every living breathing creature.

Amazing book. a must read .

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A thoughtful, heartfelt eulogy to the importance of the natural world. A beautiful book, poetic in its ability to capture the feeling and essence of Danielle’s experience.

Contemporary Australian literature from the author’s heart and soul.

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In the spirit of reconciliation, Audible acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.