Animals Strike Curious Poses: Essays

**"It might be the best book on animals I've ever read. It's also the only one that's made me laugh out loud."**

**-Helen MacDonald for *The New York Times Book Review***

Beginning with Yuka, a 39,000 year old mummified woolly mammoth recently found in the Siberian permafrost, each of the 16 essays in *Animals Strike Curious Poses* investigates a different famous animal named and immortalized by humans. Modeled loosely after a medieval bestiary, these witty, playful, whipsmart essays traverse history, myth, science, and more, bringing each beast vibrantly to life. **Elena Passarello** is an actor, a writer, and recipient of a 2015 Whiting Fellowship in nonfiction. Her first collection with Sarabande Books, *Let Me Clear My Throat*, won the gold medal for nonfiction at the 2013 Independent Publisher Awards. She lives in Corvallis, Oregon.