Aryn Kyle
Author of The God of Animals
About the Author
Aryn Kyle is the author of the bestselling novel The God of Animals and a graduate of the University of Montana writing program. Her short stories have appeared in many publications including Best New American Voices 2005 and Best American Short Stories 2007. Her story Foaling Season won a National show more Magazine Award for Fiction for The Atlantic Monthly. She is also the recipient of the American Library Association's Alex Award, the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, and other honors. She lives in New York City. show less
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- 1978
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- Colorado State University
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The God of Animals by Aryn Kyle
The story centers on a young girl, about 12-years-old, attempting to understand her world. Alice Winston lives in Colorado, on a horse farm with her parents. Alice's mother remains hidden in the bedroom and very seldom ventures out of this cocoon. Alice's older sister has eloped with a rodeo cowboy, and Alice spends every day helping her father run their shabby horse farm. Aryn Kyle presents a vivid story of the trials and joys of horsemanship, but the story turns to despair at every turn. I felt trapped in the odyssey of The Grapes of Wrath, minus the eloquent language. Alice develops her first crush for a totally inappropriate male. The book ends tragically and the ending permeates the book with despair and hopelessness.… (more)
I've had this book for ages on my shelf. While it was well written and covered some interesting aspects of love, the multiple levels of sadness present in it ultimately overwhelmed everything else for me.
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