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To answer your questions, Invisible Beasts won't be long, we estimate around 25-30k words and a couple hours of gameplay. The story line is only one, in which Fosco and Giovanna play different roles, both essential to the plot:D. Also, little hidden update, due to some changes from the 'original plan' the endings went from 3 to 5. Previous to this, I had my G4 tower able to dual-boot into Mac OS X or Mac OS 9.2.2. Mac OS 9 was fully functional-internet connectivity through Mozilla; some control over sound (although it was. How to Join Invisible Wi-Fi Networks on Mac. From anywhere in Mac OS X, pull down the familiar Wi-Fi connection menu at the top of the screen. Choose 'Join Other Network' near the bottom of the list. Type the hidden networks SSID (the name of the router) exactly in the 'Network Name' field.

Mac's inbuilt hard drive can't cater all the data storage requirements, and hence an external hard disk drive is required to store the files and lessen the burden on the internal Mac hard drive. Moving the data from the Mac hard drive to an external media assures the OS X gains plenty of free spaces for smoother operations.

Plug -n- Play

All it requires is to unbox the new external hard drive and connect it to Mac's USB port for instant usage. Most of the times, accessing the external hard disk on Mac will be as easy as eating a pie. However, at few occasions, you might not feel such luck. The external hard drive fails to mount or get visible on the Finder, Disk Utility and elsewhere!!

Let us discuss some checkpoints to locate a missing external hard drive on OS X.

Drive Connections

  1. Check with your hard disk power light
  2. Make sure both end cables are attached properly if the external hard drive isn't powered up or fails to show in Finder.

Finder

  1. Click Finder and go to Files
  2. Under Files click New Finder Window and check your external hard drive under the Device section. [Device appears on the left side of the Finder window]

Cables

USB power cables play a significant role in getting an external hard drive visible on Mac OS X. An invisible external hard drive might require more power for its visibility in Finder. Get the cables corrected and the external hard drive should show up on Mac.

Sound

You must also notice that the external hard drive isn't producing strange noise while it gets powered with the Mac's hardware. A clicking, ticking or buzzing sound from the external storage media will confirm its component failure and the reasons for not showing up on the Mac's desktop or Finder.

Failing to Mount

How are you able to access the external hard drive on Mac OS X? Simple, the connected external drive shows up on the Mac, and since it is mounted, you can read and writes the data from it. However, the reverse of the above case will halt easy access to your external hard disk drive.

Disk Utility

  1. Launch Disk Utility
  2. Check external hard drive from the left pane of the hard disk. You will notice that the external media is greyed out, which confirms that the drive is unmounted on OS X.

3. Select the media and click Mount from the Disk Utility tool bar. Once done, the media will be back to normal and ready for access.

In the case of external hard drive file system corruption, the Disk Utility << Mount procedure will not function and as a result, you will require performing data recovery on unmounted Mac volumes. You will salvage the files with the help of data recovery application and then proceed to erase or format the external hard disk drive using Mac OS Extended Journaled file format. The formatting of the external hard drive will replace the damaged file system with a new HFS system and hence it will get mounted on the Mac for files transfer.


256 pages

Trade PaperEbook

Mac Os Mojave

ISBN: 9781934137819



'Invisible Beasts is a strange and beautiful meditation on love and seeing, a hybrid of fantasy and field guide, novel and essay, treatise and fable. With one hand it offers a sad commentary on environmental degradation, while with the other it presents a bright, whimsical, and funny exploration of what it means to be human. It's wonderfully written, crazily imagined, and absolutely original.'

Invisible Beasts Mac Os 7

Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See and The Shell Collector

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'This environmental fable—as if Where the Wild Things Are had been written by Rachel Carson—is a lyrical field guide . . . as well as a commentary on extinction and being alive.'

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'Muir astounded this reader. Liltingly physical, metaphorically sound, elusively knowing, her language is paint and clay and vibration.'

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist citation, Hartford Public Library

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'[An] imaginative menagerie comes to life in [Muir's] novel Invisible Beasts.'

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'Wonderful and unusual. . . . [Invisible Beasts] is full of a sense of wonder, and has lyrical, passionate, and often funny descriptions of animals and the connections between people and animals.'

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'Vividly portrayed.'

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'A wild and woolly hybrid that refreshingly defies classification. . . . Compelling throughout . . . it's the literary lovechild of Lewis Carroll and Rachel Carson filtered through the lens of zoology's godfather, Darwin himself.'

    on

'An imaginative, delightful field guide to animals that seem to be visible to only a few people—including amateur naturalist and narrator Sophie. As her detailed descriptions of the fantastic creatures unfold, Sophie reveals a bit about human nature.'

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'At once a celebration of the power of imagination and a requiem for the species we're losing every day. Both moving and often surprisingly funny, it's a seductive work of speculative naturalism that has its hands in the dirt and its head in the clouds.'

    on

'Brilliant. . . . With a light, witty, but heartwrenching touch, without preaching or hectoring in any form, Muir reveals, through the stories of her magnificent, funny, endearing invisible animals and their perils and extinctions, the anthropocentric obtuseness and mindless, casual as well as purposeful devastation of the environment and the mass slaughter of life forms, including ourselves, that puts all of us—animals, vegetables, and minerals—in dire peril.'

    on

'Sensitive and elegant . . . funny and tender. . . . Beasts, a category used here in all its expansiveness, includes everything from the human to the microbe. This book is a wondrous testament to those relationships, interdependencies, and affinities. Invisible Beasts makes the bestiary a document of profoundly human dimensions, and offers to all readers, whether devotees of science or of fantasy, very real pleasures.'

    on

'An absolute delight. . . . This smart, whimsical novel takes readers not only into a world of ‘invisible beasts' but into the mind of a charmingly quirky character.'

    on

'An erudite guidebook to the ‘animals' that walk unseen among us.'

    on

'Full of language that is at once passionate and precise, flowery and full of information, [Invisible Beasts] is bursting at the seams with a strange duality, a dizzying mash-up of romanticism and science.'

    on

'Lines blur between the human and animal worlds in this richly detailed debut. . . . In Sophie's struggles to find her footing in a world only she and a few others can see, Muir expertly pinpoints the frailty of the human condition. This is an amazing feat of imagination.'

    on

'Playfully and thoughtfully underlines the pain and loss of extinction . . . combin[ing] fact and imagination in 20 fables narrated by an amateur naturalist. . . . A marvelous capsule of natural history . . . not to mention crackling suspense.'

    on

'The various fantastical beings presented here are described in careful scientific detail with results that are weird, whimsical, and somewhat unsettling. Like very fractured Just So Stories.'

    on

'Charming and inventive. Cheep city - heritage game jam 2020 mac os. . . . Sophie, through her whimsical and funny descriptions of her beloved creatures, offers us insights about love, sex, truthfulness, perspective, and the passage of time.'

    on

'At times laugh-out-loud funny . . . and sometimes sad and profound. . . . The animals featured in this book may be fictional, but the stories are strengthened considerably by the obvious scientific knowledge that underpins them.'

    on

'Has all the elegant precision of a feat of architecture—or a wonder of nature. . . . The ties that bind us to our fellow invisible beasts are never simple or straightforward; they are, in fact, as unexpected as Muir's endlessly inventive prose.'

    on

'In this twenty-first century, there's no one like Sharona Muir who can write, in bright accurate language, animals real or imaginary in an updated bestiary that riffs on evolution, extinction, and what it means to be human among other species. We need this view, and you'll be right there with her on every page of Invisible Beasts.'

John Felstiner, author of Can Poetry Save the Earth?: A Field Guide to Nature Poems

'Invisible Beasts is a delightful and stunning feat of environmental imagination, endlessly enjoyable and fascinating. With the deep inventiveness of Ursula Le Guin and the quirky vitality of Annie Dillard, Sharona Muir seduces us into a cautionary world full of creatures, at once fanciful and utterly convincing, who hold unexpected lessons for ourselves.'

Robert Finch, author of A Cape Cod Notebook and co-editor of The Norton Book of Nature Writing

'Many writers are inspired by symbiology—the interdependence of nature, culture, and technology—but Muir's intelligence and breadth of knowledge are exceptional. You could not find a better little book of ethics, politics, and ecology for our time.'

Invisible Beasts Mac Os X

Regenia Gagnier, author of The Insatiability of Human Wants and Individualism, Decadence and Globalization

'If you've lost your capacity to wonder at the myriad forms of life swarming, burrowing, swooping, and gamboling around you—and inside you—then look no further. Equal parts science and imagination, Invisible Beasts takes us on a journey to another world that turns out to be our world, as if seen and experienced for the first time. If you're interested in what it means to be alive, and share life, then read this book.'

Cary Wolfe, author of Before the Law: Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame and What is Posthumanism?

'This imaginative collection constitutes a bestiary that is as curious as it is unsettling.'

WORD Bookstores (Brooklyn, NY & Jersey City, NJ)

(link)

'This fine book full of humor and love of animals real or imagined would be a great read for any explorer.'

Molly Pace, The Fountainhead Bookstore (Hendersonville, NC)

(link)

'If you are interested in beasts of any kind, imaginary or not, [Muir's] writing is lovely and the chapters make it an easy book to pick up and read a few chapters at a time.'

Elaine Mattson, Edmonds Bookshop (Edmonds, WA)

(link)

Nikakudori reborn mac os. Sophie is an amateur naturalist with a rare genetic gift: the ability to see a marvelous kingdom of invisible, sentient creatures that share a vital relationship with humankind. To record her observations, Sophie creates a personal bestiary and, as she relates the strange abilities of these endangered beings, her tales become extraordinary meditations on love, sex, evolution, extinction, truth, and self-knowledge.

In the tradition of E.O. Wilson's Anthill, Invisible Beasts is inspiring, philosophical, and richly detailed fiction grounded by scientific fact and a profound insight into nature. The fantastic creations within its pages—an ancient animal that uses natural cold fusion for energy, a species of vampire bat that can hear when their human host is lying, a continent-sized sponge living under the ice of Antarctica—illuminate the role that all living creatures play in the environment and remind us of what we stand to lose if we fail to recognize our entwined destinies.

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist

Orion Book Award Finalist

O, The Oprah Magazine 'Title to Pick Up Now'

BuzzFeed 'Book To Dive Into'

Brooklyn Book Festival 'Most Impressive Debut Novelist'

Kenyon Review 'Holiday Reading Recommendation'

Publishers Weekly 'First Fiction' selection, 'Book of the Week,' Book Expo America 'Galley to Grab' & 'PW Daily Review of the Day'

Library Journal 'Top Indie Fiction' selection & 'Book That Buzzed at BEA'

'If you are interested in beasts of any kind, imaginary or not, [Muir's] writing is lovely and the chapters make it an easy book to pick up and read a few chapters at a time.'

Elaine Mattson, Edmonds Bookshop (Edmonds, WA) Furs of fury mac os.

(link)

'This fine book full of humor and love of animals real or imagined would be a great read for any explorer.'

Molly Pace, The Fountainhead Bookstore (Hendersonville, NC)

(link)

'This imaginative collection constitutes a bestiary that is as curious as it is unsettling.'

WORD Bookstores (Brooklyn, NY & Jersey City, NJ)

(link)

'If you've lost your capacity to wonder at the myriad forms of life swarming, burrowing, swooping, and gamboling around you—and inside you—then look no further. Equal parts science and imagination, Invisible Beasts takes us on a journey to another world that turns out to be our world, as if seen and experienced for the first time. If you're interested in what it means to be alive, and share life, then read this book.'

Cary Wolfe, author of Before the Law: Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame and What is Posthumanism?

'Many writers are inspired by symbiology—the interdependence of nature, culture, and technology—but Muir's intelligence and breadth of knowledge are exceptional. You could not find a better little book of ethics, politics, and ecology for our time.'

Regenia Gagnier, author of The Insatiability of Human Wants and Individualism, Decadence and Globalization

'Invisible Beasts is a delightful and stunning feat of environmental imagination, endlessly enjoyable and fascinating. With the deep inventiveness of Ursula Le Guin and the quirky vitality of Annie Dillard, Sharona Muir seduces us into a cautionary world full of creatures, at once fanciful and utterly convincing, who hold unexpected lessons for ourselves.'

Robert Finch, author of A Cape Cod Notebook and co-editor of The Norton Book of Nature Writing

Invisible Beasts Mac Os Catalina

'In this twenty-first century, there's no one like Sharona Muir who can write, in bright accurate language, animals real or imaginary in an updated bestiary that riffs on evolution, extinction, and what it means to be human among other species. We need this view, and you'll be right there with her on every page of Invisible Beasts.'

John Felstiner, author of Can Poetry Save the Earth?: A Field Guide to Nature Poems

'Has all the elegant precision of a feat of architecture—or a wonder of nature. . . . The ties that bind us to our fellow invisible beasts are never simple or straightforward; they are, in fact, as unexpected as Muir's endlessly inventive prose.'

'At times laugh-out-loud funny . . . and sometimes sad and profound. . . . The animals featured in this book may be fictional, but the stories are strengthened considerably by the obvious scientific knowledge that underpins them.'

'Charming and inventive. . . . Sophie, through her whimsical and funny descriptions of her beloved creatures, offers us insights about love, sex, truthfulness, perspective, and the passage of time.'

'The various fantastical beings presented here are described in careful scientific detail with results that are weird, whimsical, and somewhat unsettling. Like very fractured Just So Stories.'

'Playfully and thoughtfully underlines the pain and loss of extinction . . . combin[ing] fact and imagination in 20 fables narrated by an amateur naturalist. . . . A marvelous capsule of natural history . . . not to mention crackling suspense.'

'Lines blur between the human and animal worlds in this richly detailed debut. . . . In Sophie's struggles to find her footing in a world only she and a few others can see, Muir expertly pinpoints the frailty of the human condition. This is an amazing feat of imagination.'

'Full of language that is at once passionate and precise, flowery and full of information, [Invisible Beasts] is bursting at the seams with a strange duality, a dizzying mash-up of romanticism and science.'

'An erudite guidebook to the ‘animals' that walk unseen among us.'

'An absolute delight. . . . This smart, whimsical novel takes readers not only into a world of ‘invisible beasts' but into the mind of a charmingly quirky character.'

'Sensitive and elegant . . . funny and tender. . . . Beasts, a category used here in all its expansiveness, includes everything from the human to the microbe. This book is a wondrous testament to those relationships, interdependencies, and affinities. Invisible Beasts makes the bestiary a document of profoundly human dimensions, and offers to all readers, whether devotees of science or of fantasy, very real pleasures.'

Invisible beasts mac os catalina

'At once a celebration of the power of imagination and a requiem for the species we're losing every day. Both moving and often surprisingly funny, it's a seductive work of speculative naturalism that has its hands in the dirt and its head in the clouds.'

    on

'Brilliant. . . . With a light, witty, but heartwrenching touch, without preaching or hectoring in any form, Muir reveals, through the stories of her magnificent, funny, endearing invisible animals and their perils and extinctions, the anthropocentric obtuseness and mindless, casual as well as purposeful devastation of the environment and the mass slaughter of life forms, including ourselves, that puts all of us—animals, vegetables, and minerals—in dire peril.'

    on

'Sensitive and elegant . . . funny and tender. . . . Beasts, a category used here in all its expansiveness, includes everything from the human to the microbe. This book is a wondrous testament to those relationships, interdependencies, and affinities. Invisible Beasts makes the bestiary a document of profoundly human dimensions, and offers to all readers, whether devotees of science or of fantasy, very real pleasures.'

    on

'An absolute delight. . . . This smart, whimsical novel takes readers not only into a world of ‘invisible beasts' but into the mind of a charmingly quirky character.'

    on

'An erudite guidebook to the ‘animals' that walk unseen among us.'

    on

'Full of language that is at once passionate and precise, flowery and full of information, [Invisible Beasts] is bursting at the seams with a strange duality, a dizzying mash-up of romanticism and science.'

    on

'Lines blur between the human and animal worlds in this richly detailed debut. . . . In Sophie's struggles to find her footing in a world only she and a few others can see, Muir expertly pinpoints the frailty of the human condition. This is an amazing feat of imagination.'

    on

'Playfully and thoughtfully underlines the pain and loss of extinction . . . combin[ing] fact and imagination in 20 fables narrated by an amateur naturalist. . . . A marvelous capsule of natural history . . . not to mention crackling suspense.'

    on

'The various fantastical beings presented here are described in careful scientific detail with results that are weird, whimsical, and somewhat unsettling. Like very fractured Just So Stories.'

    on

'Charming and inventive. Cheep city - heritage game jam 2020 mac os. . . . Sophie, through her whimsical and funny descriptions of her beloved creatures, offers us insights about love, sex, truthfulness, perspective, and the passage of time.'

    on

'At times laugh-out-loud funny . . . and sometimes sad and profound. . . . The animals featured in this book may be fictional, but the stories are strengthened considerably by the obvious scientific knowledge that underpins them.'

    on

'Has all the elegant precision of a feat of architecture—or a wonder of nature. . . . The ties that bind us to our fellow invisible beasts are never simple or straightforward; they are, in fact, as unexpected as Muir's endlessly inventive prose.'

    on

'In this twenty-first century, there's no one like Sharona Muir who can write, in bright accurate language, animals real or imaginary in an updated bestiary that riffs on evolution, extinction, and what it means to be human among other species. We need this view, and you'll be right there with her on every page of Invisible Beasts.'

John Felstiner, author of Can Poetry Save the Earth?: A Field Guide to Nature Poems

'Invisible Beasts is a delightful and stunning feat of environmental imagination, endlessly enjoyable and fascinating. With the deep inventiveness of Ursula Le Guin and the quirky vitality of Annie Dillard, Sharona Muir seduces us into a cautionary world full of creatures, at once fanciful and utterly convincing, who hold unexpected lessons for ourselves.'

Robert Finch, author of A Cape Cod Notebook and co-editor of The Norton Book of Nature Writing

'Many writers are inspired by symbiology—the interdependence of nature, culture, and technology—but Muir's intelligence and breadth of knowledge are exceptional. You could not find a better little book of ethics, politics, and ecology for our time.'

Invisible Beasts Mac Os X

Regenia Gagnier, author of The Insatiability of Human Wants and Individualism, Decadence and Globalization

'If you've lost your capacity to wonder at the myriad forms of life swarming, burrowing, swooping, and gamboling around you—and inside you—then look no further. Equal parts science and imagination, Invisible Beasts takes us on a journey to another world that turns out to be our world, as if seen and experienced for the first time. If you're interested in what it means to be alive, and share life, then read this book.'

Cary Wolfe, author of Before the Law: Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame and What is Posthumanism?

'This imaginative collection constitutes a bestiary that is as curious as it is unsettling.'

WORD Bookstores (Brooklyn, NY & Jersey City, NJ)

(link)

'This fine book full of humor and love of animals real or imagined would be a great read for any explorer.'

Molly Pace, The Fountainhead Bookstore (Hendersonville, NC)

(link)

'If you are interested in beasts of any kind, imaginary or not, [Muir's] writing is lovely and the chapters make it an easy book to pick up and read a few chapters at a time.'

Elaine Mattson, Edmonds Bookshop (Edmonds, WA)

(link)

Nikakudori reborn mac os. Sophie is an amateur naturalist with a rare genetic gift: the ability to see a marvelous kingdom of invisible, sentient creatures that share a vital relationship with humankind. To record her observations, Sophie creates a personal bestiary and, as she relates the strange abilities of these endangered beings, her tales become extraordinary meditations on love, sex, evolution, extinction, truth, and self-knowledge.

In the tradition of E.O. Wilson's Anthill, Invisible Beasts is inspiring, philosophical, and richly detailed fiction grounded by scientific fact and a profound insight into nature. The fantastic creations within its pages—an ancient animal that uses natural cold fusion for energy, a species of vampire bat that can hear when their human host is lying, a continent-sized sponge living under the ice of Antarctica—illuminate the role that all living creatures play in the environment and remind us of what we stand to lose if we fail to recognize our entwined destinies.

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist

Orion Book Award Finalist

O, The Oprah Magazine 'Title to Pick Up Now'

BuzzFeed 'Book To Dive Into'

Brooklyn Book Festival 'Most Impressive Debut Novelist'

Kenyon Review 'Holiday Reading Recommendation'

Publishers Weekly 'First Fiction' selection, 'Book of the Week,' Book Expo America 'Galley to Grab' & 'PW Daily Review of the Day'

Library Journal 'Top Indie Fiction' selection & 'Book That Buzzed at BEA'

'If you are interested in beasts of any kind, imaginary or not, [Muir's] writing is lovely and the chapters make it an easy book to pick up and read a few chapters at a time.'

Elaine Mattson, Edmonds Bookshop (Edmonds, WA) Furs of fury mac os.

(link)

'This fine book full of humor and love of animals real or imagined would be a great read for any explorer.'

Molly Pace, The Fountainhead Bookstore (Hendersonville, NC)

(link)

'This imaginative collection constitutes a bestiary that is as curious as it is unsettling.'

WORD Bookstores (Brooklyn, NY & Jersey City, NJ)

(link)

'If you've lost your capacity to wonder at the myriad forms of life swarming, burrowing, swooping, and gamboling around you—and inside you—then look no further. Equal parts science and imagination, Invisible Beasts takes us on a journey to another world that turns out to be our world, as if seen and experienced for the first time. If you're interested in what it means to be alive, and share life, then read this book.'

Cary Wolfe, author of Before the Law: Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame and What is Posthumanism?

'Many writers are inspired by symbiology—the interdependence of nature, culture, and technology—but Muir's intelligence and breadth of knowledge are exceptional. You could not find a better little book of ethics, politics, and ecology for our time.'

Regenia Gagnier, author of The Insatiability of Human Wants and Individualism, Decadence and Globalization

'Invisible Beasts is a delightful and stunning feat of environmental imagination, endlessly enjoyable and fascinating. With the deep inventiveness of Ursula Le Guin and the quirky vitality of Annie Dillard, Sharona Muir seduces us into a cautionary world full of creatures, at once fanciful and utterly convincing, who hold unexpected lessons for ourselves.'

Robert Finch, author of A Cape Cod Notebook and co-editor of The Norton Book of Nature Writing

Invisible Beasts Mac Os Catalina

'In this twenty-first century, there's no one like Sharona Muir who can write, in bright accurate language, animals real or imaginary in an updated bestiary that riffs on evolution, extinction, and what it means to be human among other species. We need this view, and you'll be right there with her on every page of Invisible Beasts.'

John Felstiner, author of Can Poetry Save the Earth?: A Field Guide to Nature Poems

'Has all the elegant precision of a feat of architecture—or a wonder of nature. . . . The ties that bind us to our fellow invisible beasts are never simple or straightforward; they are, in fact, as unexpected as Muir's endlessly inventive prose.'

'At times laugh-out-loud funny . . . and sometimes sad and profound. . . . The animals featured in this book may be fictional, but the stories are strengthened considerably by the obvious scientific knowledge that underpins them.'

'Charming and inventive. . . . Sophie, through her whimsical and funny descriptions of her beloved creatures, offers us insights about love, sex, truthfulness, perspective, and the passage of time.'

'The various fantastical beings presented here are described in careful scientific detail with results that are weird, whimsical, and somewhat unsettling. Like very fractured Just So Stories.'

'Playfully and thoughtfully underlines the pain and loss of extinction . . . combin[ing] fact and imagination in 20 fables narrated by an amateur naturalist. . . . A marvelous capsule of natural history . . . not to mention crackling suspense.'

'Lines blur between the human and animal worlds in this richly detailed debut. . . . In Sophie's struggles to find her footing in a world only she and a few others can see, Muir expertly pinpoints the frailty of the human condition. This is an amazing feat of imagination.'

'Full of language that is at once passionate and precise, flowery and full of information, [Invisible Beasts] is bursting at the seams with a strange duality, a dizzying mash-up of romanticism and science.'

'An erudite guidebook to the ‘animals' that walk unseen among us.'

'An absolute delight. . . . This smart, whimsical novel takes readers not only into a world of ‘invisible beasts' but into the mind of a charmingly quirky character.'

'Sensitive and elegant . . . funny and tender. . . . Beasts, a category used here in all its expansiveness, includes everything from the human to the microbe. This book is a wondrous testament to those relationships, interdependencies, and affinities. Invisible Beasts makes the bestiary a document of profoundly human dimensions, and offers to all readers, whether devotees of science or of fantasy, very real pleasures.'

'Brilliant. . . . With a light, witty, but heartwrenching touch, without preaching or hectoring in any form, Muir reveals, through the stories of her magnificent, funny, endearing invisible animals and their perils and extinctions, the anthropocentric obtuseness and mindless, casual as well as purposeful devastation of the environment and the mass slaughter of life forms, including ourselves, that puts all of us—animals, vegetables, and minerals—in dire peril.'

'At once a celebration of the power of imagination and a requiem for the species we're losing every day. Both moving and often surprisingly funny, it's a seductive work of speculative naturalism that has its hands in the dirt and its head in the clouds.'

'An imaginative, delightful field guide to animals that seem to be visible to only a few people—including amateur naturalist and narrator Sophie. As her detailed descriptions of the fantastic creatures unfold, Sophie reveals a bit about human nature.'

'A wild and woolly hybrid that refreshingly defies classification. . . . Compelling throughout . . . it's the literary lovechild of Lewis Carroll and Rachel Carson filtered through the lens of zoology's godfather, Darwin himself.'

'Vividly portrayed.'

'Wonderful and unusual. . . . [Invisible Beasts] is full of a sense of wonder, and has lyrical, passionate, and often funny descriptions of animals and the connections between people and animals.'

'[An] imaginative menagerie comes to life in [Muir's] novel Invisible Beasts.'

'Muir astounded this reader. Liltingly physical, metaphorically sound, elusively knowing, her language is paint and clay and vibration.'

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist citation, Hartford Public Library

(link)

'This environmental fable—as if Where the Wild Things Are had been written by Rachel Carson—is a lyrical field guide . . . as well as a commentary on extinction and being alive.'

'Invisible Beasts is a strange and beautiful meditation on love and seeing, a hybrid of fantasy and field guide, novel and essay, treatise and fable. With one hand it offers a sad commentary on environmental degradation, while with the other it presents a bright, whimsical, and funny exploration of what it means to be human. It's wonderfully written, crazily imagined, and absolutely original.'

Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See and The Shell Collector






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