A review by mulrooneyr
The Best American Short Stories 2019 by Heidi Pitlor, Anthony Doerr

3.0

“To call it compassion makes it sound like a form of divine love, and it wasn't that; it was terribly human. If anything, it was an animal love, the love of an animal that has been living in an incomprehensible world until one day it encounters another of its kind and realizes that it has been applying its comprehension in the wrong place all along.”