“Dad was the first to say, ‘Something is killing animals.’ He was the first to say, ‘It could be that we’re the carriers. We’re the ones making them sick.’ He was the first to say, ‘Something is bringing them back.’” Teddy is fifty when he decides to tell the story of his childhood, both the terror and the grief and the brief moments of astonishing, incredible intermingling, as a pandemic rewrites animal and human DNA and gives children a glimpse of what might have been, just as it’s been forever lost. Part plague tale, part zombie lore, Animals is a story of what happens when humans wreck the animal kingdom and the animals fight back.