her unowned heart

an unexpected visitor arrives

while she tries to find a connection to her dead mother

but always strong

Joan has been searching for her missing husband

The Radiant Lives of Animals justice her unowned heartFrom a celebrated Chickasaw writer, a spiritual meditation, in prose and poetry, on our relationship to the animal world, in an illustrated gift package. Concerned that human lives and the natural world are too often defined by people who are separated from the land and its inhabitants, Indigenous writer and environmentalist Linda Hogan depicts her own intense relationships with animals as an example we all can follow to heal our souls and reconnect