Book Talk – ‘Your Wild and Precious Life’
Join us for an evening where filmmaker and anthropologist Adam Paaske talks to Anglo-British novelist Liz Jensen about her memoir ‘Your Wild and Precious Life’, the story of how a mother rebuilt herself, reoriented her life and rediscovered the enchantment of the living world.
Liz Jensen’s son, a zoologist, conservationist and ecological activist, was twenty-five when he collapsed and died unexpectedly. She fell apart. As she grieved, forest fires raged, coral reefs deteriorated, CO2 emissions rose and fossil fuels burned. Adam Paaske will among other things talk to Liz Jensen about what her son Raphaël fought for as a political activist, how Liz Jensen experienced Raphaël’s untimely death and the surrounding world’s different ways of reacting, and why she believes that grief and environmental activism are connected.
