“Tom French has given us a gorgeously written, meticulously reported, and incredibly moving look into the hearts and minds of animals and their keepers. You will never again visit a zoo without thinking of this remarkable story.”

—JEFFREY ZASLOW,
coauthor, The Last Lecture

“Zoo Story takes us on an extraordinary, enlightening journey behind the scenes of the places many of us have only glimpsed through cages and smudged glass. Thomas French peers into the dark eyes of some of the world’s most powerful creatures, and shows us our own reflection.”

—JIM SHEELER,
winner of the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing and
author of National Book Award Finalist Final Salute

“I’ll read a better book on zoos when elephants fly. Oh wait, they kinda do in the amazing journey that is Zoo Story by Thomas French.”

—ROY PETER CLARK,
author of Writing Tools and The Glamour of Grammar

“Zoo Story is a deeply moving, page-turning, mind-altering book. Thomas French tells the story of the great animals—man, woman, tiger, chimp—like no one before him.”

—MICHAEL CAPUZZO,
author of Close to Shore and The Murder Room