We Loved It All

A Memory of Life

By: Lydia Millet

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Acclaimed novelist Lydia Millet’s first work of nonfiction is a genre-defying tour de force that makes an impassioned argument for people to see their emotional and spiritual lives as infinitely dependent on the lives of nonhuman beings.

Drawing on a quarter-century of experience as an advocate for endangered species at the Center for Biological Diversity, Millet offers intimate portraits of what she calls “the others”—the extraordinary animals with whom we still share the world, along with those already lost.

Humans, too, fill this book, as Millet touches on the lives of her world-traveling parents, fascinating partners and friends, and colorful relatives, from diplomats to nut farmers—all figures in the complex tapestry each of us weaves with the surrounding world.

Written in the tradition of Annie Dillard or Robert Macfarlane, We Loved It All is an incantatory work that will appeal to anyone concerned about the future of life on earth—including our own.

©2024 Lydia Millet (P)2024 Dreamscape Media

It's worth a listen

A novelist's skill turned towards a nonfiction story, or creation (and destruction) myth, that may just snap some of us out of our daze.

Grief, hope, and love

A heartbreaking meditation on what we lose when we lose other species, through outright harm and heedless negligence. The hints of compassionate humor throughout, narrated in Xe Sands' warm, casual voice, soften the sorrowful truths that Lydia Millet offers, and encourage us toward acceptance, hope, and some step, big or small, to make things better.

Dull, fell asleep

Not my style. It is my fault for thinking it would get better . It did not . And I do not like 15 word minimum requirements