The sound of feathers: attentive living in a world beyond ourselves

"Using an accessible storytelling approach, The Sound of Feathers centers places and spaces from the author's everyday life to ask: What does it mean to be haunted by the lives and afterlives of other animals in everyday places of living and dying-from roadkill to animal testing, getting rid of a backyard rat's nest or sharing space with chickens? Kathryn Gillespie bears witness to these hauntings and shows how witnessing the violence toward living beings that is inherent to everyday life illuminates political and ethical entanglements among humans, other species, and the ecologies in which we live and die. More broadly, Gillespie shows how attention to everyday multispecies encounters might work to reveal, disrupt, and undo the violences of racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and anthropocentrism"-- Provided by publisher.