All-new stories about the urban worlds where animals and humans fight love and find common ground from the nationally bestselling author of Cod and SaltIn these stories Mark Kurlansky journeys to his familiar haunts like New Yorkrsquos Central Park or Miamirsquos Little Havana but with an original earthy and adventurous perspective From baseball players in the Dominican Republic to Basque separatists in Spain to a restaurant owner in Cuba from urban coyotes to a murder of crows Kurlansky travels the worlds of animals and their human counterparts revealing moving and hilarious truths about our connected existenceIn the end he illuminates how closely our worlds are aligned how humans really are beasts susceptible to their basest instincts their wildest dreams and their artful survival.