Between the city and the country, between nature and industry, lies suburbia. Peter Friederici examines how history — natural, culture, collective and personal — shapes a landscape. Set in the North Shore suburbs of Chicago, The Suburban Wild is an innovative collection of essays celebrating the fragile wonders of nature and lamenting their destruction. In the midst of pollution, traffic, sprawling subdivisions, houses, apartments, Friederici points out the natural miracles waiting to be discovered: the humming of cicadas on summer evenings, the seasonal migrations of ducks and wild geese, age-old landforms, algae, mussels and a now-extinct passenger pigeon. | The Suburban Wild by Peter Friederici, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters