The April Readers Circle will feature a discussion of Primal Tears and an interview with author Kelpie Wilson. Join us April 12 at 10 am on KMUD radio or listen online at www.kmud.org.

A cross between a human and a bonobo? Carl Sagan and others have speculated: Is it possible? What kind of creature would it be? And how might this affect our world?

Primal Tears is the story of Sage, born to a young woman who has volunteered to be a surrogate mother for an endangered bonobo chimpanzee. The process goes awry, and Sage, a lovable youngster, is neither completely one species nor the other. When her existence becomes public knowledge, she needs all the best characteristics of both species to find a place for herself in our human-dominated world.

Read the first chapter online: http://www.kelpiewilson.com/primal%20tears/chapter1.htm

Ask your local bookseller to order a copy from North Atlantic Books.

Kelpie Wilson is the environmental editor and a writer for truthout.org. Her articles and essays have been published by Orion, AlterNet, Tidepool, Wild Earth, High Country News, The Progressive, Hope Dance and Sentient Times. She was interviewed as part of the New Dimensions Radio Deep Ecology series and profiled as a diarist in Grist Magazine. She also does technical writing for the solar power industry.

Kelpie was a key organizer of the Earth First! Exxon Valdez campaign in Alaska (1989) and of the Redwood Summer campaign in California (1990). From 1991 to 2003 she worked for the Siskiyou Regional Education Project, a grassroots forest protection group, serving as executive director from 1997-2001. She also helped lead the campaign to create a one million-acre Siskiyou Wild Rivers National Monument.

She lives with her husband in a solar-powered home in the Siskiyou Mountains.