"In this unusually refreshing meditation (which reads like a novel), we are given a tour of the space around and within us. Her new book, Savage Park, further explores with astonishing power, eloquence, precision, and acid humor her obsessive, necessary theme: the gossamer-thin separation between life and death." -David Shields, author of Reality Hunger "I yield to no one in my admiration for Amy Fusselman's work.
This startling revelation is at the heart of Savage Park, and will make readers look at the world in a whole new way.
Perhaps it isn't variety, but fear that is the spice of life. In asking us to reexamine fundamental ideas about our approaches to space and risk and how we pass these concepts down to our children, Fusselman also asks us to look at the world in a different way. Her conceptions of space, risk, and play were shattered. But while on a trip to Tokyo with her family, Fusselman stumbled upon an adventure playground called Hanegi Playpark, where children sawed wood, hammered nails, and built open fires. America is the land of safety, of protecting children to make sure that nothing can possibly hurt them. This is the question that lies at the heart of Amy Fusselman's Savage Park. How fully can the world be explored when you are focused on trying not to die? "A fascinating and daresay essential meditation on childhood, parenthood, and the importance of wild spaces for those wild creatures known as kids."-Dave Eggers
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