Fragile Beasts, (Paperback)

from tjsjohanna

I listened to this book and really enjoyed the story. Although there were multiple points of view, the use of two narrators really helped me to keep track of who was speaking. I love the image of the title, "fragile beasts" that suggests that one can be brutal and yet at the same time can be brok...

from indygo88

Like most of O'Dell's novels, this one is set in rural, coal-country Pennsylvania, but the reader also glimpses brief flashbacks of an alternating storyline in Spain, where bullfighting reigns. Brothers Klint and Kyle, estranged by their mother a few years earlier, and now orphaned due to an auto...

from maryjomac

This was a great book, esp how all the stories blended together. Many different backgrounds, much pain, but all the same realization. Quote," That day I realized God or no God, Fate or no Fate, it didn't matter. All the centuries of man looking for answers with his philosophy and politics, his sc...

from maryjomac

This was a great book, esp how all the stories blended together. Many different backgrounds, much pain, but all the same realization. Quote," That day I realized God or no God, Fate or no Fate, it didn't matter. All the centuries of man looking for answers with his philosophy and politics, his sc...

from tammathau

After Klint and Kyle's dad is killed in a car accident, they go live with Miss Jack, a rich, old recluse. Miss Jacks withdrew from the world after her lover was killed in a bull fight in Spain years before. After the boys' family secrets threaten to destroy lives, Miss Jacks must decide whether t...