Francis Opila is an adventurer, now in the mind of a crow, now in the hunger of a three-legged coyote, now in the terror of an escaping rattlesnake.

Because of his shape-shifting, it's tempting to say his keen attention catches everything we miss, including our larger stories of cruelty and destruction.

And yet, with a steady voice in a book that is gentle and brave, he illuminates the world he steps into ahead of us.

- John C. Morrison, author of Monkey Island and

Heaven of the Moment