Bird song stirring in the marrow as it must have stirred in the first hunters, stirring them to the hunger in their own bones, stirring and showing them what it is to fly and fly toward the earth’s wild bounty and never arrive.” “When one wakes in the woods, he wakes to singing. Yet when the hunt, too, turns tragic, the narrator is left struggling to survive, physically and emotionally. The journey is an attempt to retreat and connect, to mourn his loss and to be a better father than his own was. Long familiar with these wilds from hunting trips with his father, the unnamed narrator returns with his own son to track and kill an elusive mountain lion. The mountains of British Columbia serve as the primary setting, a place that takes on extra significance after the death of the protagonist’s wife. The novel is a story of love and loss, of a man coping with grief and all the darkness that comes with it. This unsettling kinship is the backdrop of Joseph Fasano’s The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing. Untamed nature and the creatures that live there can feel awfully, disturbingly familiar despite their distance from the everyday. Wildness-not wilderness-is sometimes the draw of remote places. A beautiful and brutal examination of intimacy, grief, and man’s relationship with nature
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