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“They decipher human scents, collaborate with people to survive, protectively sleep at their bedside and sometimes attack.”
“Though another fox clan ultimately adopts him, their care feels like only a temporary reprieve from advancing human nihilism.”
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“King, the urban refugee recalls running carefree in the woods long ago and claims such memories express a universal canine longing.”
“London parallels this condition to the delirious fervor he perceives underlying men’s domesticated selves.”
“Call of the Wild is a field study pitting the civilized against the atavistic.”
“Instead of natural wilderness, though, the contemporary hinterland is man-made desolation.”
“But Yoon infuses this neutral-tone narration with lively and intelligent dialogues among Etna and other animals (Etna can speak to every species, though Soojin is the only human).”
“Fox 8, Etna and King collectively remind me of the superintelligent, compassionate extraterrestrials in science fiction who wish to rescue humans from their self-wounding.”
“But after endearing us to this eager and innocent narrator, Saunders blindsides us.”
“Yoon faces the literary challenge of reworking thematic tropes and a narrative device that risk becoming formulaic—the wise animal narrator, the return to innocence, primitive savagery that surfaces in the wild, masculine man-dog intimacy born at the ancestral campfire.”
“They testify, interrogate and grieve the blind, self-destructive choices humans fail to question themselves.”
“When Etna’s close companion handler Jason is killed after four years in earth-scorching combat, Etna sets out to rediscover his coastal puppyhood home in an unnamed region (Yoon’s details suggest Korea) across a wasteland strewn with refugee camps.”
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“Yet Etna gazes sensitively upon the vulnerable American soldiers who command him.”
““All dogs dream of forests whether they’ve been in one or not,” he notes.”
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“Over the course of the novel’s 24 hours, he serves as stabilizing interlocutor for the distressed, quarrelsome couple who repeat their stories like characters in a static Samuel Beckett play.”