Love, friendship, heartbreak and tigers. When two teenage boys in the Netherlands find themselves promoted from roustabout to apprentice tiger trainers the possibilities are immense, but also treacherous. And as they become men, the friends discover that the biggest danger is not the tigers.
Rebecca K. O’Connor is the author of We Were Wilder, Lift, Falcon’s Return, and several reference books on the natural world. She works for a conservation organization in her hometown.
Tiger, Tiger is a short story about two teenage boys work for a circus and begin working with tigers. They change as they grow into young men, testing friendship and the love they share as brothers.
It jumped around a bit and was hard to follow and then it would get back to the story line, saving it.
This was actually really good. Even though it was short, it did a good job of representing young relationships in a world that doesn’t always allow boys to be children.