Divine Animal |
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Author:
| Sanders, Scott Russell |
ISBN: | 978-0-9913102-0-3 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2014 |
Publisher: | Earth Works Publishing
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Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $0.00 |
Book Description:
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A wound may be inflicted in a heartbeat--from an explosion, accident, or cruel act--but healing, if it comes at all, comes slowly. Divine Animal is a story of healing, traced through the lives of characters bound together by a secret trauma. There is young Harlan, whose search for a path to manhood leads him from Ohio to a mountainside farm in Vermont, where he meets Katarina, a Swedish au pair who has come to America to perfect her English. There is Aurora, a teenage runaway who takes...
More DescriptionA wound may be inflicted in a heartbeat--from an explosion, accident, or cruel act--but healing, if it comes at all, comes slowly. Divine Animal is a story of healing, traced through the lives of characters bound together by a secret trauma. There is young Harlan, whose search for a path to manhood leads him from Ohio to a mountainside farm in Vermont, where he meets Katarina, a Swedish au pair who has come to America to perfect her English. There is Aurora, a teenage runaway who takes refuge in upstate New York, waiting tables and dodging questions. In Michigan's Upper Peninsula, there is Teresa Two Bears, an elderly Ojibwa woman whose son died aboard a Navy ship. Living nearby is Naomi Rosenthal, a physician haunted by the photo of a woman grieving at a soldier's grave in Arlington Cemetery. There is folk singer Jack Haymaker, who lost his parents in a landslide near his home in Washington's Cascade Mountains, and now travels the country performing his songs, lifting spirits and facing down grief. And in the hill country of southern Indiana, there is Martin Zakar, an architect who restores derelict buildings, a man drawn by a thread of memory toward an elusive woman whose secret unites all of these seemingly separate lives.