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"Marley and Me" meets "All Creatures Great
and Small," as an ailing but lovable orphan buffalo joins
a Santa Fe household.
A sprawling suburban house in Santa Fe is not the kind of
home where a buffalo normally roams, but Veryl Goodnight and
Roger Brooks are not your ordinary animal lovers. 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 situation beyond any sitcom writer's wildest dreams
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
historical shadow of the near-extermination of a majestic
and misunderstood animal, Roger sets out to save just one
buffalo.
Written in the tradition of Ian Frazier's "Great Plains"
and the work of Garrison Keillor and Bill Bryson, "A
Buffalo in the House" tells an important, uplifting
story about one animal's ability to touch human lives and
reconnect people of all ages to the vanished past.
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