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"Furious and electric...a fever dream."(Publishers Weekly)
Breaking Bad meets No Country for Old Men...
Ever since their father's untimely death five years before, Wyatt Smith
and his inseparably close twin sister, Lucy, have scraped by alone on
their family's isolated ranch in Box Elder County, Utah. That is until
one morning when, just after spotting one of their steers lying dead in
the field, Wyatt is hit in the arm by a hail of gunfire that takes four
more cattle with it. The shooter: a fever-eyed, fearsome girl-child with
a TEC-9 in her left hand and a worn shotgun in her right.
They hold the girl captive, but she breaks loose overnight and heads
south into the desert. With the dawning realization that the loss of
cattle will mean the certain loss of the ranch, Wyatt feels he has no
choice but to go after her and somehow find restitution for what's been
lost. Wyatt's decision sets him on an epic 12-day odyssey through a
nightmarish underworld he only half understands - a world that pitches
him not only against the primordial ways of men and the beautiful yet
brutally unforgiving landscape but also against himself.
As he winds his way down from the mountains of Box Elder to the mesas of
Monument Valley and back, Wyatt is forced to look for the first time at
who he is and what he's capable of and how those hard truths set him
irrevocably apart from the one person he's ever really known and loved.
Steeped in a mythic, wildly alive language of its own, and gripping from
the first gunshot to the last, Rough Animals is a tour de force from a
powerful new voice.
