“In this quiet, charming memoir, Raven recounts her journey to accepting this unusual companion. In fact, Fox-curious, unique, determined to matter-inspired our new logo! - Cindy Spiegel Fox is now a friend of mine too-and I hope he will become your friend as well.
In my own solitude, the book opened me up to the different forms friendship can take, and the ways in which we are intrinsically connected to the world we live in. (He invested!) When the fires raged on the West Coast, the book resonated powerfully for another tragic reason. When a fox crossed my path as I drove to a meeting with a potential investor, I viewed it as a sign of good luck. When Covid-19 hit, and I isolated myself in the woods on Long Island, I thought of Cathy and her relationship to nature. She surprised me by saying yes.įox and I is about so many things that feel important at this difficult time. “I don’t know if it’ll happen, and if it does happen, I don’t know when-but I can’t help asking you to wait for us,” I told her. I called Cathy and told her that Julie and I were working on starting a new company. The book reminded me why we publishers do what we do: the story resonated with me so strongly that I believed other people had to read it too.
And then she began to read to him from The Little Prince.īack in New York after the conference, I couldn’t stop thinking about the pages I’d read. But what was she to make of this fox, who each day would situate himself close to a lone forget-me-not and watch her come and go? How do you even talk to a fox? One day Cathy brought her camping chair outside and sat just feet away from him.
Since leaving home, Cathy had always been on her own books and the natural world kept her company, and she had never felt lonely. Then one day she realized that a mangy-looking fox was showing up on her property every afternoon at 4:15 p.m. She built herself a house off the grid in Montana and supported herself by teaching remotely and leading field classes in Yellowstone National Park. For years Catherine Raven worked as a Ranger at the National Parks, eventually earning both a college degree and a Ph.D.
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