We Loved It All

"We have all been the beneficiary of Lydia Millet's eloquence and imagination through fiction. But now she gives us a different kind of story, a story of stunning attention, truths, and urgency based on her own wild life. We Loved It All is an ode to the creatures we live among: finned, feathered, furred, scaled, and rooted. I needed this book to feel less alone...Millet's relationship with the natural world is its own joyous anthem of belonging. This is a rigorous, evocative, brilliant bow to life, even as the world burns. Please read this transformative anti-memoir that shows us a way forward." - Terry Tempest Williams, author of Erosion: Essays of Undoing

"Lydia Millet's We Loved It All is at once lyrical and densely packed, intimate and all-encompassing. It beautifully captures the current moment, in all its terrors and possibilities." - Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction and H is for Hope

"Lydia Millet’s novels have always worked on me like a drug; the combination of her tenderly sardonic voice and the command of her uncanny narrative velocity, which keeps me turning pages like burning through a bag of chips without stopping to lick the salt off my fingers. Her book-length philosophical memoir, We Loved It All, reproduces those distinctions, and will break your heart." - Jonathan Lethem, author of Brooklyn Crime Novel

"I love reading Lydia Millet, delight in the pithy observations of her all-seeing eye, and I suspect her many admirers will be smitten with We Loved It All. This deep-time story of our immersion with Earth’s wild creatures—and our hapless modern attempts to escape nature—is something different from her novels, but the Millet voice is fully present. I’m not sure there’s a better educated-enviro-activist-grounded-in-science approach to natural history out there." - Dan Flores, best-selling author of Wild New World and Coyote America

"Magic words, beautiful thoughts, an altogether unique book that allows you to watch a gorgeous mind at work. There is, quite apart from the magic of her writing, not a single page where you won't learn something new. We Loved It All will leave you breathless." - Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, author of Lost Companions and When Elephants Weeps