Set in the 1970s at the Chicago zoo in front of the snow leopard’s pen, this is the story of two sisters from rural West Virginia. Sally has run away from home to find her big sister Claire June, whose life up north she has imagined to be filled with all the promise and hope lacking down south. Even though life in the big city isn’t all Sally and C.J. thought it would be, Sally is going to stay and try to make her way.
