Ms. Leduc, the author of the brilliant The Centaur’s Wife, has created an imaginative fable, a fairy tale that explores the boundary between humans and animals. There are talking hyenas, the feral disciples. There are pilgrims, a maybe prophet, and a “religion”. Importantly, there is an animal reawakening, an acquisition of language and consciousness. This is an epic tale from 1908-2041 that is both surprising and exhilarating: what is human, what is wild?
Wild Life – Amanda Leduc
What David Read 