American novelist Lydia Millet turns to memoir with We Loved It All: A Memory of Life, although she styles it as an “anti-memoir.” Freely alternating between tales from generations of life around her, wonderment at the worlds of non-human species, and admonishing observations on humanity’s blindnesses in the face of climate change and, in particular, the next “great extinction,” the book carefully lays out a beguiling tapestry of reflection. Never didactic, always infused with wisdom, We Loved It All is one of the more ruminative, gentle-but-punchy, idiosyncratic pleas for sane action in a seemingly desperate world. Recommended for all.
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