Wild Souls by Emma Marris (Bloomsbury, 2021) is a finalist for the 42nd L.A. Times Book Prizes this year, in the Science & Technology category. Winners will be announced on April 22nd. Our heartiest congratulations, Emma!

Transporting readers into the field with scientists tackling these profound challenges, Emma Marris tells the affecting and inspiring stories of animals around the globe — from Peruvian monkeys to Australian bilbies, rare Hawai’ian birds to majestic Oregon wolves. Revealing just how intertwined animal life and human life really are, Wild Souls will change the way we think about nature-and our place within it.

Read the story from the L.A. Times.