PositiveThe New York Times Book Review... smart and tender ... At times Raven’s blow-by-blow descriptions of the ecosystem drag, and her narrations from Fox’s point of view often felt too cute for me. Still, the deftness of her observations erases any suggestion that her connection to Fox is invented or saccharine. It blooms, like any other friendship, from proximity, personality, attention and time ... Allowing every animal on the page its full agency, Fox & I crisply upends the hierarchy that places humans at the top of a pyramid. For some readers, this reanimation of wild animals may be painful, a reminder that the ecological destruction we’re collectively perpetrating falls upon conscious, aware beings, who are now tasked with surviving transformed habitats and extreme conditions ... By the end of Fox & I, I found myself deeply lonely for the kind of belonging Raven found on the land. How did we end up so distant from our animal friends?
