Playing Possum By Susana Monsó Material:Hard Cover We have been pushed to

We have been pushed to the limit

a riverbank populated by birds that used to be women—these and other tales illuminate the shadows of contemporary life

Anna can’t do it alone…

Without losing her heart

Playing Possum By Susana Monsó Material:Hard Cover We have been pushed toHow animals conceive of death and dyingand what it can teach us about our own relationships with mortality When the opossum feels threatened, she becomes paralyzed. Her body temperature plummets, her breathing and heart rates drop to a minimum, and her glands simulate the smell of a putrefying corpse. Playing Possum explores what the opossum and other creatures can teach us about how we and other species understand mortality, and demonstrates that the