A teenage girl lies bleeding in a remote farmhouse, her story unraveling in reverse.
The Zoo rewinds the final eight days of Dorothy’s life as she flees across a decaying landscape filled with fractured echoes of Oz. Haunted by her past and hunted by the mysterious West, she travels with three companions—the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Lion—each hiding motives darker than their fabled names suggest.
As Dorothy’s path winds toward its devastating beginning, truth and illusion blur, revealing the cost of belief and betrayal.
A finalist for the Wishing Shelf and Eric Hoffer Awards, The Zoo by Andrew Phelps is a bold, unsettling reimagining of Oz for readers who crave psychological depth and haunting beauty.
