Jaguars Children

Advance Praise for The Jaguar's Children : "[Vaillant] turns to fiction with results that are 'riveting.'"- Library Journal , starred review "Vaillant's timely first novel captures both the straitened circumstances of hardworking campesinos and the humanity and raw desperation of a man slowly giving in to hopelessness."- Booklist "A dramatic, tense novel...the importance of its themes, which closely mirror life, cannot be doubted."- Publishers Weekly "John Vaillant is in the business of writing masterpieces. But this first novel will make his many followers fall over in shock. Vaillant sees the tragedy of human predation on the border for what it is-a real-world horror worthy of Stephen King. This book rushes at you relentless as a nightmare and doesn't let up until it kicks out the walls. Settle in. You're going to need a stiff drink. Make it ice water." -Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The Devil's Highway , Into the Beautiful North and The Hummingbird's Daughter " The Jaguar's Children is devastating. It's at once a literary mystery, an engrossing tour de force, and a brilliant commentary on humanity's role in the physical world. The voice that echoes out from that abandoned place Vaillant so masterfully creates won't leave me." -Joseph Boyden, author of Three Day Road and The Orenda "I have long admired the visceral storytelling and moral complexity of John Vaillant's brilliant non-fiction about humankind's tragically ambivalent relationship with the natural world. Now he brings his abundant literary gifts to a debut novel set in a very real borderland in which human beings are themselves treated like animals. The Jaguar's Children is a beautifully rendered lament for an imperiled culture and the brave lives that would preserve it. You should read it." -John Burnham Schwartz, author of Reservation Road and The Commoner "In The Jaguar's Children we enter the dangerous borderlands between countries and generations; myth and magic; human community and the vast, infinitely mysterious, wild environment. Here, John Vaillant proves that his heart and imagination are as expansive and fierce as his radiant intellect. Never have I encountered a writer with more energy or compassion."-Melanie Rae Thon, author of Sweet Hearts , The Voice of the River , and Girls in the Grass