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"Even the most mycophobic would have a hard time reading her essays without falling a little in love with her alternately forbidding and thrilling subjects."

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Publisher's Weekly

"Naturalist Pinto celebrates the interconnectedness of the natural world in this joyful mix of memoir, science, history, and adventure."

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"Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless delivers a well-sourced account of the ways mushrooms and other fungi provide essential nutrients within Earth’s root systems that enable much of life to exist as a symbiosis of 'messy, communally wired opportunists.'"

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"While the fascinating breadth and depth of her research will cause your head to spin, her energetic use of language, irony, and humor will leave you grinning. Personal, daring, and utterly delightful."

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"Maria Pinto has somehow made fungi fun, engaging and understandable, even to a non-science person like me. Not only that, but this captivating debut connects the science with historical and current Black life and experience." 

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"The writing is seductive, inviting and an invitation to heed the reality we exist in...[it] knits together those things that at first glance, appear discrete. The result is a revelation and a delight."

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