Structure

Roach’s book Fuzz is divided into fifteen chapters, “Maul Cops”, “Breaking and Entering and Eating”, “The Elephant in the Room”, “A Spot of Trouble”, “The Monkey Fix”, “Mercurial Cougars”, “When the Wood Comes Down”, “The Terror Beans”, “Okay, Boomer”, “On the Road Again”, “To Scare a Thief”, “The Gulls of St. Peter’s”, “The Jesuit and the Rat”, “Killing with Kindness”, and “The Disappearing Mouse”. The author chooses to divide the text in this manner in order to examine human-wildlife interactions in different communities, across species, and time. Each chapter focuses on a specific flora and fauna and the manner in which human beings address interactions with that species. By way of example, in “Breaking and Entering and Eating”, Roach focuses her research on bear populations in Aspen, Colorado. Throughout the chapter she speaks with Stewart Breck about his work to reduce attractants and vicariously bear...