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Earth
At some point in Animal Dreams, Codi says that before moving to Grace, she didn't know there could be so many shades of brown. Well, folks, this should come as no surprise, given that dirt plays a pretty big role in this novel. We've got graves, dead cropland, orchard soil, riverbeds—there's dirt everywhere here. That dirt, by the way, is usually being poisoned, salted, filled with human remains, or in other ways made barren—sort of like Codi's identity for most of the novel.
Things change, but it sure does take a while, and it isn't easy.
In Animal Dreams, land is like the human mind in that it remembers and in a sense lives with the effects of violence.
In Animal Dreams, identity is ultimately based on place.
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