Wild Life
Marilyn Stanley
, Lynn Mullen
, Alanna Virtue
, Amanda Schempp
, Dot Mann
, Sindi Nika
, toni velthuis
, Taya Young
, Melissa Kohlman
, Natasha Andres
, Jude Castillo
, Sandra Furlotte
, Arvia Chen
, Susan Hroncek
, Brad MULLER
, Shelley Butcher
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Christine Labelle
, Charly Wreggitt
, Agnes Marshall
, Sailaxmi Sahoo
, Sharon Forzley
, Sara Mody
, Hana Iudin
, Andrea Gillespie
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Sarah Dalton
, cassandra schiemann
, Darryl Taylor
, Marc-André Taillefer
, Chantal Comeau
, Sarah Schwartz
, Catherine Booker
, Noelle Walsh
, Joanna McFarlane-Frampton
, Wendi Waage
, Andrea Pole
, Vivian Thorgeirson
, Tami Osato
, Holly Elisabeth
, Mary Therrien
, Emily Steiner
, Mary-Esther Lee
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Brittney Warren
, Allison Dube
, Katie Macalister
, Claire Gear
, Louise Walsh
, Itraa Gold
, katie locke
, Kim Cappellina
, kristine hibbs
, Barry Kazimer
, Mae Whyte
, David Janik Jones
, Spencer Reitenbach
, Wayne Harrigan
, Desmond Tsang
, Joshua Lewis
, Sandra Lackie
, Danielle MacKinlay
, Jessica Harrison
, Ashley Barber
, Marnie Young
, Ashley Pocrnich
, Virginia Reddin
, Kim Carswell
, Laurie Burns
, Joe Titone
, tom stormonth
, Cynthia Heinrichs
, Leslie Vermeer
, Katherine Koller
, Devon Millard
, Diane O'Flaherty
, Sara Conway
, Liz Carlin
, Faye Lilley
, Rosa Cross
, Rodney Cross
, joy mills
, Lara Maynard
, Roland Schigas
, Robin Locke
, Tanis Anne
, Jennifer Beyak
, Michelle Arsenault
, zelda dwyer
, Kate Hudson
, Sarah Van Dyk
, Carol Knibbe
, diana kirkwood
, Benita Hartwell
, Ariel Kroon
, Lei Shimbashi
, Paula Ritchie
, Huguette Lemieux
, Tina May
, Charlotte Gray
, M M English
, Janet Meisner
, Gabrielle Veilleux
, Lynn Bechtel
, Anna Krentz
, Julie M.
, Susi Lovell
, GLORIA KONELSKY
, Cherryl Koylass
, Robert Hykawy
, Lisa Bilodeau
, Catherine Vendryes
, Cheryl Johnson
, Chantal Vulker
, Marla Schecter Howard
, Kim Akins
, C. Ray
, James Orr
, Linda Ham
, Nancy Reid
, Heather O'Connor
, Ellen Clarke
, Rita Osullivan
, Ken Gilmour
, Amanda Clarke
, Brenda Vaccarello
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In 19th-century Scotland, young Josiah is banished by his father for seeing the divine in the animals around him and sent to Siberia with a small Christian mission to purge such nonsense from his soul. Miserably scrubbing the chapel floor one night, Josiah is visited by what he thinks is God in animal form. When his saviours, a hyena and her mate, rescue him from a natural disaster that kills the other missionaries and then bring him safely home, he founds a religion based on his belief that God granted speech to the hyenas as part of a divine plan to heal and exalt the human race.
The hyena pair, Barbara and Kendrith, aren't so sure that Josiah has it right. But with their beautiful strangeness, they utterly transform the people they encounter over succeeding generations. As Josiah's church gathers adherents, more and more animals start to speak to humans—from signing baby gorillas to seductive alligators. At first one or two rebellious pets make a break for freedom, but then comes a mass exodus of all animals held captive, forcing people to contend with a wildness in themselves they have spent millennia denying. The end of this remarkable fairytale is both joyful and devastating, completely dissolving the boundary between what's "human" and what's "animal."
