She uncrossed her arms, buried her hands in the pockets of her shorts. Then I contracted in South Africa, tracking ivory and rhino poachers.” The third main character is Malaya, who comes to the sanctuary looking for work: Anse grudgingly tells her to “Send him in,” and Tyler fires back that she is “not your fucking secretary, Anse.” At the outset of the story, Tyler does not know that Anse does not acquire all of his animals legally. Tyler pushes back it might be important, and the man has traveled a long way to see him. My favorite passage involving Tyler is when a man comes to see Anse, and Anse is in a mood and wants Tyler to get rid of the guy. Tyler is the preserve’s veterinarian, a buff no-nonsense woman who is also Anse’s girlfriend. When he sees an animal in need of rescue whose owner plans to keep it-or sell its dead body for parts-he creeps in at night and liberates it. Anse is a complicated character with a possible death wish, but this aspect of his character is never overplayed, and after a haunting, visceral passage at the beginning, it becomes a subtle quality that runs beneath the surface, as it likely would in real life.Īnse accepts animals of all sorts some come from illegal private zoos, or from private owners that are surprised that their adorable lion cub has grown up to be a wild animal. Anse has PTSD related to his service, and his most searing memory is of the loss of a service dog that sacrificed its life to prevent a soldier from being killed by an explosive device. Pride of Eden is a wildlife sanctuary in Georgia, owned and run by a Vietnam vet named Anse.
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