Books
Eyes in the Soles of My Feet:
From Horseshoe Crabs to Sycamores, Exploring Hidden Connections to the Natural World
2025
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“A strange and wondrous book brimming with heart. One minute you're reading an essay on crabs, and the next you're out among the Nazca geoglyphs. That is because, as Caroline Sutton lyrically shows, everything is connected: the sun's glare, the moon's tide, a dying mother, a winsome grandchild, a sycamore, a laurel, a dove. Every page ignites a sense of wonder and makes you treasure our world anew.”
— Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an Octopus and Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell
“Intricate, personal, often astonishing, and simply quite beautiful throughout, Caroline Sutton’s word-sculpted narrative deserves to be savored. That’s how delicious this book is.”
— Carl Safina, author of Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe.
“Caroline Sutton writes with superb powers of description and empathy for creatures as far-ranging as horseshoe crabs, voles, Greenland sharks, and jellyfish. And those as close to home as the canine family member and that insatiably curious and fiery creature, the human child. I admire her deep respect and desire to learn from them all.”
— Alison Hawthorne Deming, author of Zoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit
“In these insightful essays, nature writer Caroline Sutton highlights aspects of the natural world that are often overlooked….With lyrical prose, Sutton explores such thought-provoking questions as how best to teach children to see the world, free of adult preconceptions, and what humans would see if they viewed their surroundings through ten eyes distributed over their bodies like horseshoe crabs. The result is a revelatory perspective on life on Earth.”
— Publishers Weekly
Mainlining: A Memoir
2020
Don’t Mind Me, I Just Died:
On Time, Tennis, and Unforgiving Mothers
2017
“Caroline Sutton’s voice is distinctive, the questions she asks are elemental, and the answers…well, that’s one of the many appealing things about Don’t Mind Me, I Just Died: Sutton knows there are neither answers nor destinations, only a voyage she takes with her readers.”
— Daniel Okrent, author of Stephen Sondheim: Art Isn’t Easy
“The details in these essays are so wonderfully precise they are at times Nabokovian, the emotions subtle but resonant, and always the intellect is sharp as a knife: Sutton offers a look into a private woman's world with the delicious company of her observant eye, her artist's wit, and her very human affection, whether for her mother, a leopard cub, tennis, or home. Each sentence is a pleasure: it is clear how, in Sutton's hands, the craft of the essay has been polished with care, each a small gem.”
— Gina Apostol, author of La Tercera
How Do They Do That?
Wonders of the Modern World Explained
1980
How Did They Do That?
Wonders of the Far and Recent Past Explored
1985