Book of Records and the stories we tell

and the stories we tell ourselves

his most raw and vulnerable work to date

and staying true to yourself help pave the way for success--and how embracing change and honoring tradition can go hand in hand

At once a work of black humor and social critique

Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on "a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific

Book of Records and the stories we tellLina and her father arrive at an enclave called The Sea, a staging post between migrations, with only a few possessions. In this mysterious and shape shifting place, a building made of time, pasts and futures collide. Lina befriends her neighbors: Bento, a Jewish scholar in seventeenth century Amsterdam; Blucher, a philosopher in 1930s Germany fleeing Nazi persecution; and Jupiter, a poet of Tang Dynasty China. Memory, political revolution,