This study of the eastern coyote traces its first emergence in New England in the 1970s to its life there today. Reid shows that during its migration from the Southwest, the eastern coyote picked up wolf DNA and acquired little-understood behaviors of pack allegiance and prey.

Quietly powerful essays, weaving keenly observed insights into the mysteries of nature with those of family and community
It s not easy, Catherine Reid writes, to love a person and a place in equal measure. Love she does, however, as described in these intimate, lyric essays about the land and people around her. With the inside perspective of a native New Englander combined with her outsider status as a lesbian, Reid explores such paradoxes as those that arise from harnessing wild rivers or legalizing same-sex marriage. Her fascination with natural phenomena whether bird...