"Animal Sanctuary is an intensely focused, ambitious work with a wonderfully insistent sense of obsession. The novel brings together weirdly disparate elements in the same surprising way that life does. Returning continuously and seemingly helplessly to animals as a point of reference, Animal Sanctuary suggests that obsession may be the only way of pinning down the truth. This is a rich, interesting, multidimensional book that knows fragility and maps it."—Stacy Levine, judge of the Starcherone Fiction PrizeSarah Falkner, LMT, has been a New York State licensed bodywork practitioner since 1998. Falkner also writes, blogs, and makes visual art.