- Published: 16 December 2025
- ISBN: 9781646223022
- Imprint: Catapult
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 256
- RRP: $55.00
My Little Donkey
And Other Essays

















- Published: 16 December 2025
- ISBN: 9781646223022
- Imprint: Catapult
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 256
- RRP: $55.00
"Martha Cooley has a generous mind that manages to coax out of ordinary experience insights and layers of meaning that pass the rest of us by. Expatriate life, the human body, ageing, siblinghood, music, our connection to the animal world: these are just a handful of the subjects that weave through essays aglow with compassion, grace, and delight. My Little Donkey is a book to be awakened by and to cherish." —Michael Frank, author of One Hundred Saturdays
"Not since Natalia Ginzburg's The Little Virtues has there been a book like this. One reads with awe and surprise throughout. Martha Cooley's deft touch and mosaic method are in the service of a profoundly mature sense of life. She is the rising star of the personal essay." —Benjamin Taylor, author of Here We Are: My Friendship with Philip Roth