The Animal Room: Stories

From the award-winning author of The Wonder Garden comes a set of linked stories spotlighting human-animal relations-and revealing the tensions that threaten to fracture a suburban New England community.

Tensions simmer in small-town Connecticut. A city transplant is haunted by the deer carcass hanging in her neighbor's garage. A psychiatric patient believes she's becoming a bird. A disgraced oil executive invites his granddaughter's kindergarten class to tour his home menagerie-what could g...