The God of Animals : A Novel (Paperback)

from Beecharmer

The story was interesting and the characters were realistic, but there were parts of this book I just could not take. The graphic cruelty to animals was over the top. So much so that I had to fast forward through some of it. Maybe it wouldn't have affected me so much if I were not an animal lover...

from Dnorthup

I consider myself to be an avid and open-minded reader, but probably wouldn't have picked up a title about a young girl and horses, but I thought I would give it a try since The BPP selected it for the book club. I grew up with friends who raised and showed horses and was taken back to hot summer...

from Citizenjoyce

The God of Animals reminded me a great deal of A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley, very harsh and Shakespearean. Making your living off the land is a hard way to go, and trying to be a poor horse rancher catering to the rich takes all the vicissitudes of working with nature and mixes it with the cru...

from msbaba

God of Animals, by Aryn Kyle, is an unflinching, powerful, honest, and achingly beautiful coming-of-age tale set in the American West. The period is most likely the mid-1970s-a time before computers, the Internet, cell-phones, satellite T.V., and antidepressant medications. The story is told enti...

from tangledthread

A young girl's coming of age story in the high desert of Colorado. Alice is growing up on a ramshackle horse farm. At the opening of the story, her 17 year old sister has recently run away to get married, her mother is a mentally unstable recluse, and her father is the sole parent and provider. A...