BOOKS: A Novel Exploring the Challenges and Triumphs of Running an Animal Shelter
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2012:
THE RIPPLE EFFECT A Novel Exploring the Challenges and Triumphs of Running an Animal Shelter
by Marcy Eckhardt 268 pages, paperback ($17.99) or e-book ($7.99.) http://marcyeckhardt.com/
Probably close to 100% of the ANIMAL PEOPLE readership have at some point either worked or volunteered in an animal shelter. Thus probably close to 100% will either intensely identify with the characters in The Ripple Effect, by longtime shelter worker and consultant Marcy Eckhardt, or at least recognize them–and probably most who start to read The Ripple Effect will read it cover-to-cover in just a couple of sittings, as I did, feeling that The Ripple Effect is by, for, and about us, the people who know animal sheltering from the inside out, as opposed to them, who interact with shelters in various ways and often vocally criticize shelter procedures, but have little understanding of why things are done as they are. Read more