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Title: Animal Heart by Brenda Peterson ISBN: 1-57805-108-8 Publisher: Sierra Club Books Pub. Date: March, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95

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Summary: Crimes of the Heart.
Comment: After demonstrating her talents as a nonfiction nature writer, and inspired by her love for our oceans and marine life, Brenda Peterson (BUILD ME AN ARK, 2001; SINGING TO THE SOUND, 2000) has returned to writing fiction with her strong, new novel, ANIMAL HEART. Published by the Sierra Club, ANIMAL HEART explores Peterson's concerns about the new scientific technologies of our "brave new world" (p. 110), namely xenotransplantation and the military's experiments with mid-to-low frequency active sonar. The plot of Peterson's novel follows two wildlife pathologists, "passionately curious" (p. 79), Isabel Spinner and her friend, Marian Windhorse, and their forensic investigation of a mass stranding of whales and dolphins along the Oregon coast during U.S. Navy off-shore testing of high-intensity sonar. Meanwhile, after another character, Marshall McGreggor, suffers an underwater heart attack, doctors implant a baboon's heart into his chest. Soon thereafter, he experiences "cellular memories" (p. 118) of life as an ape on an African savannah. When he befriends another transplant patient, Irene Feinstein, the recipient of a pig valve heart implant, the two discover they are in an "unknown territory" (p. 264), and begin wondering if their hearts are trying to tell them something--that human life and culture are not the only measures, that humans are not the only ones who matter. With ANIMAL HEART, Peterson has not only written a troubling story about scientific techonlogies gone way too far, but a story sure to touch the heart of every reader.

G. Merritt

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