Böcker av Larry D Kendrick

This book is about a country boy who befriends an abandoned baby squirrel. He raises it to adulthood and watches as it finds a mate and raises its own family, eventually leaving the boy to live in the wild. The boy learns an important lesson about squirrels especially empathy and compassionate response, daily in this and all of life, and the importance of letting go.

This novella is based on the character Sheriff Kriss Talbot from Cattle Drive 1882, copyright 2021 Larry Kendrick, and there are several references to the novel. Kriss faced a family tragedy as a child with the murder of his entire family influencing his decision-making and leading to him becoming a gunslinger and later in life, a lawman. It includes several flashbacks interrupting the sequential order of the main narrative, giving the reader a look at past events in the character''s life, offering a better understanding of present-day elements in the story.