Afterlives Poetry_Gift_Guide This gorgeous picture book follows

This gorgeous picture book follows a helpful marmot working to save a forest recovering after a wildfire

and at the same time

Lasting Love At Last is what they’d name it

squashy creations anywhere and any time

But just as abruptly as he arrived

Afterlives Poetry_Gift_Guide This gorgeous picture book followsONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022 A NEW YORKER ESSENTIAL READ A NATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE WASHINGTON POST, TIME, THE NEW YORKER, BOOKPAGE, AND KIRKUS REVIEWS Superb. . . . A celebration of a place and time when people held onto their own ways, and basked in ordinary joys even as outside forces conspired to take them away. New York Times From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature,