We the Animals

Literature lets us explore all kinds of scenarios, and in some cases, novels contemplate making a new family outside our family of origin.

We see this theme in Justin Torres' 2011 novel, We the Animals, which follows an unnamed narrator whose father is Puerto Rican and whose mother is white.

At the beginning of the book, he's six years old, roaming wild around his upstate New York hometown with his two older brothers.

The three boys move together like a pack, a three-torsoed beast.