I am discovering the Australian quokka. Seriously.

And the author to thank for that is
Anne Bishop, a USA citizen like myself.

She introduces a quokka-like animal in her
fantasy novel, Lake Silence;
however, her more recent book, Wild Country,
is a quokka-free zone populated by , let's see,
bears, panthers, crows, hawks, owls, wolves,
and an over-population of humans which
is rather brutally, shall we say, culled.

The violence in her fantasy novels can be startling,
but it is leavened with
a mordant black humor.
For me, the books get better with more reading.