• Amy Tan opens up about her birding obsession in 'The Backyard Bird Chronicles'

  • May 2 2024
  • Length: 8 mins
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Amy Tan opens up about her birding obsession in 'The Backyard Bird Chronicles'

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  • Author Amy Tan spends hours in her backyard, watching and drawing birds go about their business. Her new book, The Backyard Bird Chronicles, is full of essays and illustrations about her connection to these small creatures. In today's episode, she speaks with NPR's Leila Fadel about how an overwhelming sense of gloom from racism and political division in 2016 forced her to find a way to immerse herself in nature, and how her obsessive hobby led to a pretty high bird food budget – and mealworms in her fridge.

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