Description
In a New Orleans zoo where an outbreak threatens both animals and order, Ellen Clayton—an attentive veterinarian and devoted family member—must confront a crisis that spreads beyond the cages. As she works to contain the disease, her personal life fractures in parallel, forcing her to face the rupture of a crumbling marriage and the choices that define love, responsibility, and survival. With sharp emotional clarity and inventive narrative energy, the novel explores freedom and captivity, faith and doubt, and the ways people cling to what they can control when everything else slips away. Valerie Martin’s distinctive, human-centered style turns a high-stakes premise into a meditation on resilience, moral courage, and the possibility of renewal.
Available Editions
paperback
Black Swan
Published Jan 1, 1996
352 pages
ISBN: 9780552993920
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Details
First Published
1994
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Great Divorce by Valerie Martin.