The Backyard Bird Chronicles

"In 2016, Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club, despaired that the world was “turning uglier and uglier,” she told NPR in an interview this year. So she turned to nature, spending up to 10 hours a day watching and sketching birds right outside her window. The result is a delightful illustrated nature journal about the joys of bird-watching, featuring detailed drawings of the birds that visited Tan in her backyard."