The God of AnimalsBy Aryn Kyle
Scribner, 2007. 305 pgs. Fiction
When her older sister elopes with a rodeo cowboy, 12-year-old Alice Winston is left as the lone support to help her father, Joe, on the family’s failing horse ranch. Joe is preoccupied with the ranch’s wealthy clients and Alice’s mother suffers from depression and refuses to leave her bedroom, so Alice finds comfort in nightly telephone calls to her English teacher, Mr. Delmar, telling him the stories she wishes were true about her life. This is a beautifully-written and poignant coming-of-age story told from Alice's isolated but observant perspective.
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