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A bold, riveting debut novel of desire, betrayal, and loss, centering on three teenage girls, a horse ranch, and the tragic accident that changes everything.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rory Ramos is a dutiful teenager with a love of photography who works as a ranch hand at the stable her stepfather manages in Topanga Canyon, California, a dry, dusty place reliant on horses and hierarchies. There she rides for the rich clientele, including twins June and Wade Fisk. June begins to take an interest in Rory\u2014but she is more drawn to Vivian Price, the beautiful teenager with the movie-star father, who lives down the hill, and Rory can\u2019t help noticing, swims in her pool nearly every night. Rory\u2019s ambiguous roots and blue-collar upbringing keep her largely separate from the likes of the Prices and the Fisks\u2014until her stepfather is involved in a tragic car accident. From that moment on, the lives of these teenagers become inextricably linked\u2014are they friends or foes, lovers or rivals?\u2014sparking a series of events that come to a head the night a wildfire tears through Topanga Canyon, and Rory\u2019s life is changed forever.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kept Animals<\/i> is narrated by Rory\u2019s daughter, Charlie, twenty years after that fateful 1993 fire. Rory is away on assignment as a war photographer, and Charlie knows the key to her own existence lies in the story of what happened during that unseasonably warm fall. And without her mother to tell her the truth, she must unravel it by herself.<\/span><\/p>\n

Taut, propulsive, and gorgeously written, Kate Milliken\u2019s debut is a searing exploration of girlhood, class, and fate.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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