![]() ![]() ![]() Alison hoards food for her lost brother, hides in the back yard fort they built together, and waits for him to return. This is Smith's extraordinary account of the impact of that loss - on herself, on her parents, and on a deeply religious community.Īt home, Alison and her parents sleepwalk in shifts. ![]() But on a cool summer morning when Alison was fifteen, she woke to learn that Roy, eighteen, was dead. A luminous, true story, Name All the Animals is an unparalleled account of grief and secret love: the tale of a family clinging to the memory of a lost child, and a young woman struggling to define herself in the wake of his loss.Īs children, siblings Alison and Roy Smith were so close that their mother called them by one name: Alroy. ![]()
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