Skip to main content
PBS logo
 
 

Book Review of Second Nature

Second Nature
Second Nature
Author: Alice Hoffman
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
joann avatar reviewed on + 402 more book reviews


He was beautiful. He was innocent. And in the locked room where the psychiatrists kept him, he was treated more ike an animal than a human being. Robin Moore, coping with a divorce-in-progress and a troubled teenaged son, surprised even herself when she impulsively rescued this man, who'd been raised in the wilderness and had no more sophistication than a child. She spirited him home to her suburban town, where she could keep him safe. But with the stange, uncivilized man's arrival came a streak of wild, uncontrollable events that distruged the peace in this perfectly ordered neighborhood-and changed all of Robin's ideas about love and humanity...