The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating Summary
Elisabeth Tova Bailey

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating Overview

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating is a memoir by Elisabeth Tova Bailey. The book focuses on a period in the author's life in which she was bedridden and convalescing from a severe illness. During this period in which she could not get out of bed, she found comfort and companionship in a wild snail that lived in a terrarium at her bedside. The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating explores themes of companionship, isolation, evolution, resilience, and nature.