{"product_id":"waiting-for-aphrodite-journeys-into-the-time-before-bones-9780618056842","title":"Waiting for Aphrodite: Journeys Into the Time Before Bones","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"We humans are a minority of giants, stumbling around in the world of little things,\" Sue Hubbell writes in this marvelous book. Each of these little things \"has a complicated and special way of getting on in the world, different from ours and different from one another's.\" In Waiting for Aphrodite she explores the ways of sponges and sea urchins, horseshoe crabs and the sea mouse known as Aphrodite -- as well as our ways. She takes us on a journey through the mysteries of time -- geological, biological, and personal -- as she writes of the evolution of life on this planet and the evolution of her own life: her childhood next to a Michigan graveyard; the three colleges where she \"learned three things\"; her twenty-five years keeping bees on a farm in the Ozarks; her move to a \"strange little house\" in a small Maine town, \"the place I wanted to grow old in.\" And in the tide pools and ocean waters there she discovered a whole new world, the world of little things that inspired this book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHubbell, Sue:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Sue Hubbell was the author of eight books, including \u003ci\u003eA Country Year\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book \u003ci\u003eA Book of Bees\u003c\/i\u003e. She wrote for the\u003ci\u003e New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eSt. Louis Post-Dispatch\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSmithsonian\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e, and was a frequent contributor to the \"Hers\" column of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Houghton Mifflin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50566109462802,"sku":"9780618056842","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ad284ffe-879f-4dfb-a941-dfb81e682eec.jpg?v=1731890904","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/waiting-for-aphrodite-journeys-into-the-time-before-bones-9780618056842","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}