Animal Quintet: A Southern Memoir Version:Digital and the chickens slaughtered by

and the chickens slaughtered by family servants—these animals frame and inform a haunting picture of a doomed childhood in a riven society

Ex-gangbangers gone straight deal with a troubled

FICTIONNatalia ReyesStephen Marche

translated by Dana LupoMichelle ChiharaThao ThaiDaisy HildyardLauren ColleeKaren CheungKenneth R

and Shannon

Animal Quintet: A Southern Memoir Version:Digital and the chickens slaughtered byIn this haunting, lyrical, luminous book, Colin Dayan meditates on her family history, her relationship with animals, and her upbringing in the South. Examining memories, family documents, and photographs, Animal Quintet takes a raw look at racial tensions and bourgeois respectability in a region struggling to change. Famed Southern warhorses ridden by Civil War generals, doomed Spanish fighting bulls, the misunderstood possum hunted by generations of