Beginning with Yuka, a 39,000 year old mummified woolly mammoth recently found in the Siberian permafrost, each of the 16 essays in Animals Strike Curious Poses investigates a different famous animal named and immortalized by humans. Modeled loosely after a medieval bestiary, these witty, playful, whipsmart essays traverse history, myth, science, and more, bringing each beast vibrantly to life.

Elena Passarello is an actor, a writer, and recipient of a 2015 Whiting Fellowship in nonfiction. Her first collection with Sarabande Books, Let Me Clear My Throat, won the gold medal for nonfiction at the 2013 Independent Publisher Awards. She lives in Corvallis, Oregon.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Published: 02/28/2017
ISBN: 9781941411391
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.40w x 0.90d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2016
Publishers Weekly 01/02/2017
Booklist 02/01/2017 pg. 11