Book jacket image for Better Living Through Birding by Christian Cooper

Random House Audio

9780593684702

STARRED REVIEW

Better Living Through Birding

Christian Cooper’s voice is warm and approachable as he reads his memoir, and the birdsongs that punctuate section breaks offer clever and appropriate ambience.

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Review of ‘Better Living Through Birding’

Christian Cooper may have come to national prominence as the Central Park bird-watcher who was the target of a racist incident in 2020, but as his memoir makes perfectly clear, that viral episode hardly defines his life story. In Better Living Through Birding (10.5 hours), Cooper delves into his identities as a gay man, a…

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