Coyote Morning: A Novel - Softcover

Lenard-Cook, Lisa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826334660 ISBN 13: 9780826334664

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press, 2004

Synopsis

One spring morning Alison Lomez watches her daughter, Rachel, wait for the school bus in front of their house when she sees a coyote trot up to the seven-year-old and sit down. This encounter between species is the first of many in Lisa Lenard-Cook's novel of life in Valle Bosque, New Mexico. The village is only a short commute from Albuquerque, but it is home to a healthy population of these adaptable canines as well as a contentious group of humans who disagree vigorously on how to deal with their wild neighbors. Lisa Lenard-Cook introduces us to coyote supporters, coyote haters, and an animal control agent who secretly practices a "catch and release" program.

Anyone who lives in the twenty-first-century West will recognize Lenard-Cook's sharp-eyed portrait of the edgy space between farms and suburbs, old timers and newcomers. But her witty send-up of the environmental issues that vex refugees from city life serves as a powerful and serious means of examining the ways human beings cope with life's mysteries and its inevitable dangers. The complex relations between men and women, parents and children, brothers and sisters that make up the daily lives of Lenard-Cook's characters will make readers reflect on their own lives and relationship to wildness.

About this title

From the Back Cover

This story of the conflicts between humans and coyotes reminds us to reflect on our relationship with the natural world.

About the Author

Lisa Lenard-Cook lives in Corrales, New Mexico. Dissonance, her first novel, won the Jim Sagel/Red Crane Books Prize for the Novel in 2001.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0826334660
• ISBN 13: 9780826334664
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208