Sensitive Creatures BOTY_2025 What begins with puzzling disappearances

What begins with puzzling disappearances among the farm animals soon grows into a much larger case—one involving clever criminals

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Sensitive Creatures BOTY_2025 What begins with puzzling disappearancesIn unflinching yet hopeful prose, this debut memoir in essays explores the most animal parts of our human nature. Discussions of various creatures in the natural world serve as portals to the painful realities Kirsten Reneau confronts in the process of breaking and remaking a home. Honest in their descriptions of sexual assault and its traumatic effects, these essays are at once clinical and lyrical reflections on the ways that desire can permeate our