Helen

This is a fun jaunt, full of likable and laughable characters. Wouldn’t say McKibben’s fiction is as strong as his non-fiction, but this is a short and easy read and does make me want to head to Vermont for some local beer.

I loved this book, ‘dog-earing’ many pages to return to. Flores’ writing is fluid, engrossing, and wide-ranging, spanning coyote(s) in his personal experience, myth and lore, genetics, politics, and, all and all, North America. Parts of the book are hard to read - the war on coyotes to this day is disturbing in internet callousness and also it’s pointlessness.

Luminous. Full of grief and hope and beauty.