Savage Park: A Meditation on Play, Space, and Risk for Americans Who Are Nervous, Distracted, and Afraid to Die. This item is unavailable.Savage Park: A Meditation on Play, Space, and Risk for Americans Who Are Nervous, Distracted, and Afraid to Die

Advance praise for Savage Park:

I yield to no one in my admiration for Amy Fusselman s work. Her new book, Savage Park, further explores with astonishing power, eloquence, precision, and acid humor her obsessive, necessary theme: the gossamer-thin separation between life and death. David Shields, author of Reality Hunger

Amy Fusselman helps us see, and feel, what matters most about being alive. This is a daring and artful and exhilarating book. The ideas are bracing; the stories are irresistible; the prose sets a new standard for nonfiction literature. Joshua Wolf Shenk, author of Powers of Two

As a culture we have become so obsessed with certainty that we are numbing ourselves to the world, to what it means to be human. In spare, eloquent prose, Amy Fusselman shows us that the only remedy will be found in plunging ourselves ever more deeply into all that we fear. Christine Gross-Loh, author of Parenting Without Borders: Surprising Lessons Parents Around the World Can Teach Us

In this unusually refreshing meditation (which reads like a novel), we are given a tour of the space around and within us. With poetic efficiency Amy Fusselman reveals what makes us savage or not; why secret, wild spaces are essential; and why playing should be taken seriously. I should add, she frightened me with it is still illegal to climb a tree in Central Park ! Philippe Petit, high-wire artist

Savage Park is a deeply felt and brilliant evocation of one of motherhood s most pressing concerns: safety. In asking whether we can live fully or parent successfully when we re governed by an unacknowledged fear of death, Fusselman jumps high above the tedious Mommy Wars, elevating crucial questions of parenting to a profound philosophical level. Here s hoping more writer-mothers follow her lead. Darcey Steinke, author of Sister Golden Hair

Amy Fusselman writes with a unique depth of feeling, and Savage Park is a fascinating and daresay essential meditation on childhood, parenthood, and the importance of wild spaces for those wild creatures known as kids. Dave Eggers, author of The Circle