It's Hard to Be an Animal: A Novel Planners fought by neighbors on American

fought by neighbors on American farms and between global powers an ocean or more away

and lyrically exciting like David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas

In these early years of adulthood

has lived his life overshadowed by the grief of others

and packed with power

It's Hard to Be an Animal: A Novel Planners fought by neighbors on AmericanFor readers of Shark Heart and Hollow Kingdom, a funny, magical, and tender novel following a lonely, conflict averse man whose sudden ability to understand animals sends him on a wild romp around NYC, and ultimately helps him discover his own voice. Strolling through Central Park on a blind date with the hilarious, irrepressible Molly Bent, Henry Parsons is feeling hopeful for the first time in years when a migratory warbler, the sweetest of little