Care Of
Letters, Connections, and Cures
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Ivan Coyote
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Ivan Coyote
About this listen
Beloved storyteller Ivan Coyote returns with their most intimate and moving book yet.
Writer and performer Ivan Coyote has spent decades on the road, telling stories around the world. For years, Ivan has kept a file of the most special communications received from readers and audience members—letters, Facebook messages, emails, soggy handwritten notes tucked under the windshield wiper of their truck after a gig. Then came Spring, 2020, and, like artists everywhere, Coyote was grounded by the pandemic, all their planned events cancelled. The energy of a live audience, a performer’s lifeblood, was suddenly gone. But with this loss came an opportunity for a different kind of connection. Those letters that had long piled up could finally begin to be answered.
Care Of combines the most powerful of these letters with Ivan’s responses, creating a body of correspondence of startling intimacy, breathtaking beauty, and heartbreaking honesty and openness. Taken together, they become an affirming and joyous reflection on many of the themes central to Coyote’s celebrated work—compassion and empathy, family fragility, non-binary and Trans identity, and the unending beauty of simply being alive, a giant love letter to the idea of human connection, and the power of truly listening to each other.
What the critics say
2021, Governor General's Literary Award - Nonfiction, Short-listed
"[Care Of] is an engaging and entertaing look into Coyote's life through their heartbreaking, hilarious, insightful, and etertaining responses." (Vancouver Sun)
"Coyote has long worn their heart on their sleeve, but here, in words that feel like a whispered confidence, they reveal the true depths of their integrity, their honesty, and their, dare I say, soul...a vital reminder of the value not only of connection, but of every story, every voice." (Toronto Star)
What listeners say about Care Of
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- Amazon Customer
- 2021-07-30
thank you Ivan
this work is beautiful, im so thankful for the letters between you and feerron. xo gloria edith
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- Jay
- 2023-09-03
If you wanna cry with both joy and grief
this is a wonderful collection of beautiful and heartfelt letters with all kinds of feelings and a healthy helping of hope. Ivan Coyote is a fantastic storyteller and their narration is so soothing and empathetic that listening to the audiobook immediately made me feel like I had been provided a safe space to cry, which I rarely do, and then I barely stopped until the book was concluded. highly recommend!
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- Lenore Lukasik-Foss
- 2021-09-26
Beautiful, soul-nurturing book
I want everyone to listen to this beautiful, inspiring, heartbreaking, hopeful book. The words paired with Ivan's performance make this an unparalleled reading experience.
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- Martha Jansenberger
- 2021-08-23
A salve
This book is a masterpiece. It’s been years since I’ve seen Ivan speak in person, and book piece so beautifully captured the experience. I’ve so missed the depth and spark and sincerity of one of their performances. ❤️
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- Casey Smith
- 2022-11-18
Incredible storytelling
This is the first book of Ivan Coyote's that I have listened to or read. Ivan's storytelling is touching in a way that I did not think possible given our different backgrounds (I am a gay cisgender white man). I regularly listen to books and rarely have I come across someone who performs their material so flawlessly and with such emotion.
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- Melanie
- 2021-07-05
Amazing!
I wasn’t sure what to expect from this book, being a departure from Ivan’s traditional style of storytelling, or so I thought anyway. This was not at all the case. It felt very much like coming home to all of the short stories I’ve read from Ivan over the years, with the addition of many wonderful voices and stories. Thank you Ivan. Amazing, as always!
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