Book Group With Berkshire Botanical Garden – Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by E.T. Bailey

Berkshire Botanical Garden and the Stockbridge Library are collaborating on a book group to be held on June 5 from 5:30 – 6:30 pm.

We are so pleased the author, Elisabeth Tova Baily, will be able to join us remotely for the second half of our discussion.

Please visit her website to explore more about the book and to actually hear the sound of a snail eating!

(note: this is an in-person event only)

ELISABETH TOVA BAILEY’s natural history/memoir, The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating, recounts her year-long observations of a wild Maine woodland snail. The true story of her interspecies relationship is reaching a general international audience of all ages. The book is also interdisciplinary, finding a home in the fields of literature, natural history, medical humanities, and education.

Bailey’s essays and short stories have been published in The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine, The Missouri Review, Northwest Review, and the Sycamore Review. She has received the William Saroyan International Prize for Nonfiction, the John Burroughs Medal Award for Distinguished Natural History, a National Outdoor Book Award in Natural History Literature, several Pushcart Prize nominations, and a Notable Essay Listing in Best American Essays. Bailey is on the Writers Council for the National Writing Project. She lives in Maine.

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