“Poignant, insightful, and thought-provoking.”

The cosmos holds the world, the world holds our bodies, and our bodies hold our lives. In her debut essay collection The World and My Body in It, Miranda R. Carter pulls readers through rural Idaho to brutal heartlands to gentle California along one neat thread, using rich storytelling and introspection to explore what it means to come alive to life and death, bliss and suffering, collision, love, holiness, and the land in its hard and soft forms.