Historia Natural

Told with Barrett's signature elegance, passion for science, and wonderful eye for the natural world, the psychologically astute and poignant stories gathered in this collection evoke the ways in which women's lives and expectations--in families, at work, and in love--have changed over more than a century. Linked together, these tales brilliantly reveal how the smallest events in the past can have vast repercussions across generations, and how potent, wonderful, and strange the relationship between history and memory can be.