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Who
knew
that
an
investigation
into
that
patch
of
grass
in
the
backyard
could
be
so
fruitful
–
and
so
funny?
More
than
550
square
miles
of
new
lawns
unfold
each
year
in
the
U.S.
alone.
Although
new
research
shows
that
these
lawns
aren't
nearly
as
"unnatural"
as
ecologists
once
thought,
no
one
has
offered
an
accessible
exploration
of
this
novel
habitat
–
until
now.
Equipped
with
a
lawn
chair
and
her
infectious
curiosity,
Hannah
Holmes
spends
a
year
in
her
yard,
hoping
to
discover
exactly
what's
going
on
out
there.
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Advance
Praise
for
Suburban
Safari
"Hannah
Holmes
is
a
freewheeling,
goofball
Rachel
Carson.
Her
obvious
concern
over
our
environmental
blunderings
never
weighs
down
her
brisk,
charismatic
prose
or
dampens
her
considerable
wit.
She
opens
our
eyes
to
insect
heroics
underfoot,
to
the
complicated
whimsy
of
crows,
the
secretive
gore
of
spiders.
Her
curiosity
and
constantly
questioning
mind
have
led
her
to
create
one
of
the
most
unique,
entertaining,
effortlessly
educational
homages
to
nature
since
Euell
Gibbons
ate
a
pine
tree."
--Mary
Roach,
author
of
Stiff:
The
Curious
Lives
of
Human
Cadavers
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