Fuzz

Praise for Mary Roach "There is much to enjoy about Mary Roach—her infectious awe for quirky science and its nerdy adherents, her one-liners…She is beloved, and justifiably so." — Jon Ronson, New York Times Book Review "Our most consistently entertaining science journalist…Roach goes where other writers wouldn’t dare…And her search produces images—a kind of technopoetry—that are hard to forget." — O, The Oprah Magazine "Nobody does weird science quite like [Mary Roach]." — Lexi Pandell, Wired "[Mary Roach] is a bold, tenacious, and insatiable reporter…[She] has a knack for posing the embarrassing, nonlinear and too obvious questions that others are always afraid to ask." — Pamela Paul, New York Times Book Review "[Roach’s books are] meticulously researched, beautifully written, and disturbingly funny…Roach’s prose is a triumph—an engaging blend of anecdote, research, and reflection…She’s the most courageous—and empathetic—science writer we’ve got." — Emily Rapp Black, Boston Globe "Roach excels in capturing science’s ‘foreign country’ aspect—roaming as a stranger in a strange land among its weird norms and novelties, grand monomaniacal passions, practitioners’ idiosyncrasies and obscure lexicon…She writes exquisitely about the excruciating." — Stephen Phillips, Los Angeles Times An Instant New York Times Bestseller • #1 Los Angeles Times Bestseller • #1 Indie Hardcover Nonfiction Bestseller • Longlisted for the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction • A New York Times Editors' Choice • A Washington Post Notable Book of 2021 • A Goodreads Choice Award Finalist • An NPR 2021 Best Book of the Year • A New York Public Library 2021 Best Book of the Year • A BookPage Best Book of 2021, Nonfiction • A Bookshop.org Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 • A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2021 • A Library Journal Best Science & Technology Book of 2021 • A Publisher's Weekly Best Book of 2021 • Science Best Book of 2021 • A Smithsonian 10 Best Science Book of 2021 • A St. Louis Public Radio Best Book of 2021 Join "America’s funniest science writer" (Peter Carlson, Washington Post), Mary Roach, on an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet.

Join "America's funniest science writer" ( Washington Post ) on an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet. An Instant New York Times Bestseller#1 Los Angeles Times BestsellerLonglisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction What's to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years ago, animals that broke the law would be assigned legal representation and put on trial. These days, as New York Times–bestselling author Mary Roach discovers, the answers are best found not in jurisprudence but in science: the curious science of human‑wildlife conflict, a discipline at the crossroads of human behavior and wildlife biology. Roach tags along with animal‑attack forensics investigators, human‑elephant conflict specialists, bear managers, and "danger tree" faller blasters. Intrepid as ever, she travels from leopard‑terrorized hamlets in the Indian Himalaya to St. Peter's Square in the early hours before the pope arrives for Easter Mass, when vandal gulls swoop in to destroy the elaborate floral display. She taste‑tests rat bait, learns how to install a vulture effigy, and gets mugged by a macaque. Combining little‑known forensic science and conservation genetics with a motley cast of laser scarecrows, langur impersonators, and trespassing squirrels, Roach reveals as much about humanity as about nature's lawbreakers. When it comes to "problem" wildlife, she finds, humans are more often the problem—and the solution. Fascinating, witty, and humane, Fuzz offers hope for compassionate coexistence in our ever‑expanding human habitat.