Katherine Driscoll, who runs a dog training business in Texas, is facing financial ruin when she receives an unexpected message from the father she has long been estranged from. She heads to Austin to meet him, only to arrive after he has died in a suspicious accident at the zoo where he worked. As she follows the clues he left behind, she is drawn into a mystery that links family secrets to a dangerous illegal trade.

A dog trainer follows the clues left by her dead father and enters a mystery rooted in a zoo and a buried family history.

bell hooks links postmodern criticism to Black liberation and cultural politics, showing why race and gender cannot be separated from theory.

Theory stays grounded in lived struggle throughout the book.

Bruce Wright uses his courtroom experience to challenge racial bias in the American criminal justice system.

A judge turns his own experience into a direct critique of the courts.