"Pinto celebrates the interconnectedness of the natural world in this joyful mix of memoir, science, history, and adventure . . . . She ends on a poignant, hopeful note, envisioning a future for humankind inspired by fungi, made up of communities that flourish through mutual aid. With echoes of Jamaica Kincaid and Annie Dillard, this is a treat for nature lovers and mushroom aficionados."--Publishers Weekly

"Reading Maria Pinto's Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless, I am stopped in my tracks again and again--admiring a string of lusciously juxtaposed words, laughing out loud at a slice of irony, thrilling at the syntax, the sentences--as her language carries, and often almost sings, the beauty and mystery and puzzlement and danger and invention and entanglement and fecundity and wonder of the mycological. And the mycophilic. I have rarely encountered such beautiful writing. I have rarely encountered such a beautiful book."--Ross Gay, author of The Book of (More) Delights

"The most daring and poignant book about fungi I've ever read. Fascinating and gorgeously written, while also being darkly funny--Pinto's prose is powerfully personal and vivid. Reading it made me ache to get up and wander into the woods."--Belle Boggs, author of The Gulf and The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood

"Pinto has executed a singular work of Black naturalism. She's charting a different, and much-needed, path for nature writing where there is radicalism, self-love, lineage, and community in nature. The woods, she tells us, should belong to everybody. I wish I'd had this text when I was young, unmoved by other naturalists. I am glad to have it now."--Gabriel Bump, author of The New Naturals

"Maria Pinto tells a story that is as much an exploration of mycology as it is an interrogation of Indigenous traditions in the West and a tale of the author's spiritual journey. . . . Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless challenges the reader to see mushrooms as more than merely an organism to be eaten, seen, or feared. Mushrooms, Pinto argues, are the ever-present ghosts that have borne witness to the past. They are the gateway to understanding the story of civilization, and they are the Gaia that binds us all."--Science Magazine