But Still They Sing

In the lyrical prose style familiar to her readers, author J.F. Riordan records a natural world minutely observed. From an examination of lifes fragility via a bathtub spider, to a tree-borne cluster of raccoons huddled together in a polar vortex, the essays capture the peculiar isolation, focus, and intensity of the pandemic lockdown, while marking the contrast of natures ruthlessness with human suffering.