ornaments
the animal family
p this is the story of how one by one a man found himself a family . almost nowhere in fiction is there a stranger dearer or funnier family and the life that the members of the animal familylive together there in the wilderness beside the sea is as extraordinary and as enchanting as the family itself .
a lonely hunter living in the wilderness beside the sea gains a family made up of a mermaid a bear a lynx and a boy .