“The stories we tell, and the language we use to tell them, matter deeply. Follmann offers another story, with thoughtful language and without romanticizing the relatives who expand beyond all good sense, to convey a necessary message: We survive together or not at all.”
PATTY KRAWEC
(author of Becoming Kin)
“Incisively thought-provoking and utterly enthralling—Scapegoat is a deeply researched history of how we talk about invasive species, which is to say how we talk about science, ‘bad’ and ‘good,’ our own role in the natural world, and the search for a better future. This book made me want to go to a dinner party because there were so many conversations I wanted to start after reading it.”
ERICA BERRY
(author of Wolfish)
“Follmann takes us on a journey through language itself and then back out into the world, to see the ‘battle’ on our planet as not between species but between capitalism and all life on Earth.”
Clare Follmann 