Christian Kiefer - The Animals

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Bill Reed manages a wildlife sanctuary in rural Idaho, caring for injured animals raptors, a wolf, and his beloved bear, Majer, among them that are unable to survive in the wild. Seemingly rid of his troubled past, Bill hopes to marry the local veterinarian and live a quiet life together, the promise of which is threatened when a childhood friend is released from prison. Suddenly forced to confront the secrets of his criminal youth, Bill battles fiercely to preserve the shelter that protects these wounded animals and to keep hidden his turbulent, even dangerous, history. Alternating between past and present, Christian Kiefer contrasts the wreckage of Bill s crime-ridden years in Reno, Nevada, with the elusive promise of a peaceful future. In finely sculpted prose imaginatively at odds with the harsh, volatile world Kiefer evokes, The Animals builds powerfully toward the revelation of Bill s defining betrayal and the drastic lengths Bill goes to in order to escape the consequences."

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Special thanks to the very patient Jill Lute of the Folsom City Zoo Sanctuary for answering my questions on the practical side of zoo management, and to the San Francisco Zoo’s Debbie Marin-Towey, assistant curator of carnivores, and Sandy Huang, carnivore animal keeper, for specific information about grizzly care. M. Paul Atwood, wildlife biologist, Upper Snake Region, Idaho Fish and Game, kindly shared his insight on grizzly behavior and cognition, and on the paperwork and legal ramifications of running a wildlife rescue in Idaho. (The IFG conservation officer in this novel bears no relation to him or any other real IFG CO

whatsoever.) I should also mention here that the wildlife rescue in the book was inspired, in part, by Animal Ark, north of Reno, Nevada.

To the various patient answerers of questions, interviewees, expert witnesses, careful and measured listeners, researchers, and divulgers of secret lives — in person or via e-mail and/or telephone — know that you helped situate these characters in their world: Lottie Ashton; Robert M. Dale; Jennae Harwell; Michael Hinch; Katie McCleary; American River College librarian Debby Ondricka; Jeffry-Wynne Prince; Tristan Soderberg-Mull; Henry Twilling; Dennis Yudt; and many of my students at American River College in Sacramento. My gratitude to all.

I am indebted to four master writers who have offered friendship, care, and counsel when needed most. Richard Ford was kind enough to help me navigate the business side of things, offering expert advice and perfectly timed words of caution. Pam Houston’s friendship and support have been invaluable, both on a personal and professional level. Denis Johnson kindly suffered a slew of stupid questions about Bonners and North Idaho and then pushed me to create better lies to answer them. Finally, I would like to acknowledge the lasting impact of my first writing teacher, now a friend of more than two decades, T. Coraghessan Boyle, fellow explorer of the collision of human and animal worlds. These people are the stars of my particular brand of heaven, and I am grateful for their friendship.

I did a great deal of reading during the drafting of this novel. In particular, I would like to acknowledge a few texts I returned to over and over again: Michael Allaby’s Temperate Forests ; Reed W. Fautin’s Biotic Communities and the Northern Desert Shrub Biome in Western Utah ; Dwayne Kling’s The Rise of the Biggest Little City: An Encyclopedic History of Reno Gaming, 1931–1981 ; James A. MacMahon’s Deserts ; Roberta Parish, Ray Coupé, and Dennis Lloyd’s Plants of the Southern Interior, British Columbia, and the Inland Northwest ; Jakob von Uexküll’s A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans ; William T. Vollmann’s monumental Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means ; and of course Vinson Brown, Charles Yocum, and Aldine Starbuck’s Wildlife of the Intermountain West , a book given to me by my grandparents when I was a child. The copy of The Tibetan Book of the Dead referenced is the 1960 Oxford University Press edition, as translated by W. Y. Evans-Wentz. I should also note that the work of John Brandon, Doug Peacock, Else Poulsen, Paul Shepard, Gary Snyder, and Clive D. L. Wynn were important in helping me find ways to approach the animals in this book.

Thank you to everyone at Liveright and W. W. Norton, especially my lovely editor Katie Adams, Cordelia Calvert, Peter Miller, and Philip Marino. Also many thanks for the lovely cover design by Jaya Miceli and copyediting expertise of Miranda Ottewell.

Finally, profound gratitude to my wonderful agent Eleanor Jackson, who was honest right when she needed to be. This novel would not exist without her.

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