- Street:
- Village Books
- Additional:
- 1200 Eleventh Street
- City:
- Bellingham ,
- Province:
- Washington
- Postal Code:
- 98225
- Country:
- United States
New York Times bestselling animal writer Jon Katz’s new book confronts a provocative and surprisingly challenging topic that’s been debated for thousands of years—namely, do animals like dogs and cats have souls? If so, do they make moral choices? How integral are they to our own spiritual lives?
Here Katz tackles the subject while continuing his zestful, moving, and immensely popular chronicle of life with the animals on Bedlam Farm including Rose, his beloved workaholic sheepdog who runs the farm; the murderous barn cat Mother; Lenore and Brutus (a seeming love affair between a black Lab and a sheep); some obnoxious goats; and a 2500-pound doughnut-loving steer named Elvis. With wisdom, humor, and insight, Katz illuminates the spiritual relationships we have with animals and the meaning they have taken on in our modern, fractured world. His conclusions may surprise you.
Jon Katz has written six novels and five works of nonfiction. A two-time finalist for the National Magazine Award, he has written for The New York Times, GQ, The Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, and Wired. He currently writes about technology, media, and culture for the Web site Slashdot.org, and is a contributing editor to public radio's Marketplace and to Bark magazine.
2012 Chuckanut Writers Conference
