February 2009 - Michelle's pickA sprawling suburban house in Santa Fe is not the kind of home where a buffalo normally roams, but then Veryl Goodnight and Roger Brooks are not your ordinary pet owners. Over a hundred years after Veryl’s ancestors, Charles and Mary Ann Goodnight, hand-raised two baby buffalo to help save the species from extinction, the sculptor and her husband adopt an orphaned buffalo calf of their own. Against a backdrop of the old American West, A Buffalo in the House tells the story of a household that redefines familyl in a really big way. Charlie has no idea he’s a buffalo and Roger has no idea just how strong the bond between man and buffalo can be. In the shadow of the near-extermination of a majestic and misunderstood animal, Roger sets out to save just one buffalo. Writing in the tradition of great human-animal relationship stores like Born Free, Seabiscuit, and Marley & Me, R. D. Rosen relates the story of a single animal’s ability to touch human lives and reconnect people of all ages to the vanished past. Read more here....
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