Unveiling the Wild Within: How Amie Souza Reilly Redefines Our Connection to Animals in ‘Human/Animal’

And it is for that reason that Reilly’s essay collection is perhaps one of the most honest accounts I’ve read of coastal Connecticut neighborhoods. The collection resists the easy narratives that have come before, mainly because it acknowledges suburbia as a place rife with contradictions at all levels, not just within an individual family. Rather than framing these contradictions as inherently negative, Reilly frames them as emblematic of so many of the problems facing our fraught American culture and politics right now.

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