The Mourner’s Bestiary by Eiren Caffall Featured on the July Cover of Booklist Reader
We are thrilled to share that The Mourner’s Bestiary by Eiren Caffall (Row House 2025) is featured on the July 2025 cover of Booklist Reader, the American Library Association’s patron-facing magazine that highlights the very best in books and audiobooks for all ages.
This beautifully written memoir of grief, chronic illness, climate collapse, and motherhood has received rave critical acclaim since its release:
⭐ Booklist Starred Review: “A penetrating work that brims with tension.”
⭐ Kirkus Starred Review: “Elegiac and unflinching... a profound meditation on loss, both personal and planetary.”
⭐ Publishers Weekly Starred Review: “Lush, lyrical, and devastatingly precise.”
In 2023, author Eiren Caffall was awarded a prestigious Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction Grant, recognizing her extraordinary voice and the importance of this work in today’s literary landscape.
If you haven’t picked up this groundbreaking memoir yet, now’s the time. Libraries across the country are putting it front and center—and it belongs on your shelf too.
