Fauna

Fülszöveg

©ne day Edal Jones, a federal wildlife officer, is able to handle humans smuggling in rare creatures and killing most of them in the process; the next day she cannot. Resdess in the early dawn, she takes her bike out to ride through the empty streets of the city core, where she watches a young girl, accompanied by a big black dog, rescuing migratory birds that have
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knocked themselves out on the city's glass towers. Curious, Edal follows the girl, Lily, back to an auto-wrecker's yard in the wide ravine that bisects the city, and discovers behind its chain-link fence a most unlikely sanctuaiy, a place where waifs and strays both human and animal find comfort and healing under the wing of the handsome young proprietor, Guy Howell. ^^ Guy has a rare talent for understanding the ^elicate Í J^ workings of damaged beings: a half-stary^cf hawk; the songbirds Lily pulls out of her pockets; Lily herself, who is on the lam from a very bad life; his only employee, Stephen, a young... Tovább

Fülszöveg

©ne day Edal Jones, a federal wildlife officer, is able to handle humans smuggling in rare creatures and killing most of them in the process; the next day she cannot. Resdess in the early dawn, she takes her bike out to ride through the empty streets of the city core, where she watches a young girl, accompanied by a big black dog, rescuing migratory birds that have
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knocked themselves out on the city's glass towers. Curious, Edal follows the girl, Lily, back to an auto-wrecker's yard in the wide ravine that bisects the city, and discovers behind its chain-link fence a most unlikely sanctuaiy, a place where waifs and strays both human and animal find comfort and healing under the wing of the handsome young proprietor, Guy Howell. ^^ Guy has a rare talent for understanding the ^elicate Í J^ workings of damaged beings: a half-stary^cf hawk; the songbirds Lily pulls out of her pockets; Lily herself, who is on the lam from a very bad life; his only employee, Stephen, a young soldier whose heart gave out on him on a tour of duty in Afghanistan; and if he is patience itself, maybe even Edai.
But his sanctuary is under attack from a different kind of lost soul: a young man cracked by a brutal backwoods upbringing who is on a mission to destroy the valley's creatures. And before the orphans and wounded souls at the heart of Alissa York's profoundly tender novel can find their way home, they must learn how to defy that horrible human tendency to destroy what we don't understand and to foster in themselves that equally mystifying human capacity to watch over the weak and the wounded, to protect and love with no thought of return. Vissza