Timothy C. Baker is Personal Chair in Scottish and Contemporary Literature at the University of Aberdeen. He is the author of four other books, most recently Writing Animals: Language, Suffering, and Animality in Twenty-First-Century Fiction and Reading My Mother Back: A Memoir in Childhood Animal Stories, as well as numerous articles and book chapters.

Prologue: Aberdonian Gleanings: MacGillivray, Jamie, and the Natural Fragment
Introduction: Gleaning, Storytelling, and Constellations: The Uses of Fragmentation
Chapter 1: 'Edgeless, Sparking, Alone': Solitude and Attention
Chapter 2: 'How It Had All Connected': Assemblage, Classification, and Performance
Chapter 3: Archives of Care: Mourning, Echoes, and the Reader as Gleaner
Conclusion: 'Particle sings to particle': Gleaning the Present
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