Last December I posted about Kenny Fries' memoir Body, Remember. I've had another of his books at my beside since, but I put it off until now.
Well. At least The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin's Theory doesn't make me relive childhood loneliness and hospitalizations (except for the sawing off the cast part - I could smell the plaster dust). No, this one just delves into the feeling I've always had that if things got tough in the world, I'd be an early choice for the ice flow.
But instead of shutting his eyes to all that and carrying on, Fries looks right into the history, theory, and applications of "survival of the fittest." He mixes it all up in with his own life, shakes, and pours out words that honor Darwin and himself (and me) and our place in the world. Read this book.


























