Slender Thread Rediscovering Hope at the Heart of Crisis

"From Ackerman come these graceful, canny reflections on her hours spent fielding calls at a suicide prevention center....Ackerman's voracious imagination and curiosity find her making forays into biochemistry and the artistic temperament, the weather and Walt Whitman, bicycling and skiing, bringing them all to bear on her shifts at the crisis center. And it is not surprising that, as a writer of luminous essays on natural history, she is able to convincingly free-associate between the emotional geography of animals...and humans..."Ackerman, Diane is the author of 'Slender Thread Rediscovering Hope at the Heart of Crisis' with ISBN 9780679771333 and ISBN 0679771336.