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Within this masterful debut, an award-winning writer and first-rate storyteller explores the tenuous bonds of family - fathers and sons, husbands and wives - because they are tested by the sometimes brutal vitality of love. In each one of the reports in this exceptional collection, David Adam Poissant gives a moving portrayal of the romantic relationship in turmoil. His strikingly true-to-life people have reached a precipice, chased there by troubles of their own making. Some stand frightened, some prepared to deal with. Some seek atonement, others the atonement that is owed them. But, taken to the brink, each must make a choice: Leap, or look away? Lee Martin writes that Poissant causes us " to face the people our company is when we're by themselves in the dark", and, from the two men racing to save the life of the sick alligator in "Lizard Man" to the girl helping her boyfriend face his very best fears in "The End of Aaron", from a boy grieving his daddy in " 100% Organic cotton" as he stalks loss of life with an Atlanta street part to a sibling' s wonder at the surreal, improbable beauty of the late night come across with a wolf, Poissant's invented worlds sparkle with integrity and dark complexness, but also with a deep compassion. They are reports hell-bent on trust. Fresh, smart, lively - and often wickedly funny - The Heaven of Animals is breathtakingly original and compulsively readable. As best-selling writer Kevin Wilson puts it, "Poissant is a writer who is aware of us with such clarity that we question how he found his way so easily into our hearts and souls."
