Events

The Narrow Gauge Book Cooperative is excited to host Pam Houston on her book tour for Animals Taught Me Everything from Torrey House Press. Pam will be at Society Hall at 6pm on October 16th. 

About the Author:
Pam Houston is the award-winning author of two novels, Contents May Have Shifted and Sight Hound; two short story collections, Cowboys Are My Weakness and Waltzing the Cat; and nonfiction works including Without Exception, Deep Creek, and Air Mail. Houston teaches at UC Davis and the Institute of American Indian Arts, and she co-founded Writing By Writers. She lives on a homestead in Colorado with her husband.

About the Book: 
What can animals teach us about how to be human?
From Icelandic mares and Irish wolfhounds to elephants, leopards, hyena bitches, and a desert-adapted lioness named Charlie, Pam Houston has learned life’s most important lessons from animals. How to play. How to rest. How to love. How to die. How to be present with the dying. How to be present with the living and with the Earth. How to find joy in the least likely places. How to find joy, literally, everywhere. With playful sincerity, Houston finds power and promise in the teachings of our fellow creatures and reminds us that the animals are here for us, every day and everywhere.