num_pages: 272
description: In each of the stories in this remarkable debut award-winning writer David James Poissant explores the tenuous bonds of familyfathers and sons husbands and wivesas they are tested by the sometimes brutal power of love.His strikingly true-to-life characters have reached a precipice chased there by troubles of their own making. Standing at the brink each must make a choice: Leap or look away? Pulitzer Prize finalist Lee Martin writes that Poissant forces us to face the people we are when were alone in the dark.From two friends racing to save the life of an alligator in Lizard Man to a girl helping her boyfriend face his greatest fears in The End of Aaron from a man who stalks death on an Atlanta street corner to a brothers surprise at the surreal improbable beauty of a late night encounter with a wolf Poissant creates worlds that shine with honesty and dark complexity but also with a profound compassion. These are stories hell-bent on hope.
language: English
title: The Heaven of Animals
publisher: Simon & Schuster