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Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award, this book by a genuine new talent crosses the racial and gender divide.

Solitary, nocturnal creatures, skunks generally go about their business unnoticed. But then there's that thing they do . . . and oh, boy, when they do it, no one can ignore them.

But there's far more to skunks than their stench, and with this beautifully illustrated entry in Reaktion's Animal series, Alyce Miller gives these furry scavengers their due. More than being unappreciated, skunks, Miller reveals, have a long history of persecution: killed off as smelly nuisances, they have also been hunted for their fur and, yes, their unique musk, which has found a perhaps unexpected use in...