By Lynda Rutledge
Awesome. Can’t. Stop. Reading. Each little episode is a scary horrible awful mishap on the way from the east coast, where a hurricane stranded the pair of giraffes and left one of them with a horrible leg injury, toward the San Diego Zoo on the west coast. Terrible things happen. Terrible
And I still loved every minute of it! It’s an old man’s final act of kindness—it’s a young man’s coming-of-age—and it’s a story of America in the final days of the depression before World War II. Some of the scenes involve Hoovervilles and some involve Sundown Towns and negro-white races. And some involve horrific animal cruelty.
And somehow, despite it all, love, kindness and compassion are found in the strangest places.
