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Lyrical coming-of-age amid ranch life’s quiet wounds

This is the kind of novel that quietly sneaks up on you. Through Alice’s sharp, lonely voice, you get a tender but unsentimental look at family, class, and the painful moment childhood gives way to something harder. If you like character-driven stories that feel haunting, intimate, and deeply human, this one really lingers.

  • ALA Alex Award (2008)
  • Spur Award for Best Western Long Novel (2008)
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The God of Animals

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ISBN: 9781416533252
Authors: Aryn Kyle
Publisher: Scribner Books
Date of Publication: 2008-03-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Young Adult, Contemporary
Goodreads rating: 3.77
(rated by 6278 readers)

Description

When her older sister runs away to marry a rodeo cowboy, twelve-year-old Alice Winston is left to bear the brunt of her family's troubles - a depressed, bedridden mother, a reticent, overworked father, and a run-down horse ranch in Desert Valley, Colorado. To make ends meet, the Winstons board the horses of rich neighbors, and as their lives become intertwined with the lives of their clients, Alice is drawn into an adult world of secrets and hard truths. She soon discovers that people - including herself - can be cruel, can lie and cheat, and every once in a while, can do something heartbreaking and selfless. A wise and haunting novel about the different guises of love and the steep tolls on the road to adulthood, The God of Animals is impossible to forget.
 

Lyrical coming-of-age amid ranch life’s quiet wounds

This is the kind of novel that quietly sneaks up on you. Through Alice’s sharp, lonely voice, you get a tender but unsentimental look at family, class, and the painful moment childhood gives way to something harder. If you like character-driven stories that feel haunting, intimate, and deeply human, this one really lingers.

  • ALA Alex Award (2008)
  • Spur Award for Best Western Long Novel (2008)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.