The god of animals : a novel

Author

Aryn Kyle

Call Number

• FICTION KYLE (CEN)

Publication Information

New York : Scribner, c2007.

Physical Description

305 p. ; 24 cm.

Summary

Alice Winston, living on the family horse ranch in Desert Valley, Colorado, is a 12-year-old girl with more than she can handle and no one to help her cope. Her older sister, 16-year-old Nona, eloped with a rodeo cowboy. Her depressed mother never leaves her bedroom. Her father has little time for Alice, other than counting on her to muck out the stalls and be polite to the paying customers. Alice reaches out to a teacher, Mr. Delmar, equally alienated. Alice starts telling lies, weaving bits and pieces of other people's lives into the tales she tells the teacher. What eventually comes to light about her family is more poignant and tragic than anything she can make up.

Notes

Featuring Alice Winston.