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oapen-20.500.12657-254472022-07-21T14:40:01Z Where the Tiny Things Are: Feathered Essays Walker, Nicole literary essays microcosmology tiny things creative non-fiction bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DN Prose: non-fiction::DNF Literary essays In this collection of longer essays nested within brief, lyrical meditations, each piece focuses on some micro aspect of everyday life as a means of exploring complex macro systems—families, dinner parties, vineyards, deserts, nations. For example, Walker’s own experience as the mother of a micropreemie (a baby born weighing less than one pound, twelve ounces, or before twenty-six weeks gestation), “the smallest thing in the world,” spurs an exploration of, among other things, the economics of health care, the causes of premature births, and the ethics of extreme interventions. Where the Tiny Things Are is a book of ideas and an exploration of science. It is of the world and of the heart – both intensely personal and expansively empathetic. 2019-03-26 23:55 2020-01-23 14:09:07 2020-04-01T10:39:47Z 2020-04-01T10:39:47Z 2017 book 1004648 OCN: 1048180207 9781947447233 9781947447226 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25447 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International 1004648.pdf punctum books 10.21983/P3.0181.1.00 10.21983/P3.0181.1.00 979dc044-00ee-4ea2-affc-b08c5bd42d13 9781947447233 9781947447226 ScholarLed 220 Brooklyn, NY open access
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In this collection of longer essays nested within brief, lyrical meditations, each piece focuses on some micro aspect of everyday life as a means of exploring complex macro systems—families, dinner parties, vineyards, deserts, nations. For example, Walker’s own experience as the mother of a micropreemie (a baby born weighing less than one pound, twelve ounces, or before twenty-six weeks gestation), “the smallest thing in the world,” spurs an exploration of, among other things, the economics of health care, the causes of premature births, and the ethics of extreme interventions. Where the Tiny Things Are is a book of ideas and an exploration of science. It is of the world and of the heart – both intensely personal and expansively empathetic.
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