After Rae's ear is shot off by a jittery security guard at the health food store, the insurance settlement allows her to take a year off from teaching. She spends it volunteering at the Los Angeles Zoo. Except for her best friend Jennie, Rae has little use for human beings. She loves cats–lots of cats. The refugee she cares for, airlifted from Afghanistan to safety, is not a person but a mountain goat. As the US goes to war and baboons fall deeply, tragically, in love, … [Read more...] about Confessions of a Carnivore by Diane Lefer
Interview with Author – Diane Lefer
About Diane Lefer: Many years ago, I dropped out of college and ran away to Oaxaca, Mexico where I met some of the most extraordinary people it’s been my good fortune to know. And also wrote a dreadful and rightfully unpublished first novel. It was great to get that first attempt out of the way. Though I never returned to formal education as a student, I somehow ended up teaching for 23 years in the MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts where, again, I had extraordinary good … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Diane Lefer
