A sprawling suburban house in Santa Fe is not the kind of home where a buffalo normally roams but Veryl Goodnight and Roger Brooks are not your ordinary animal lovers. Over a hundred years after Veryl’s ancestors Charles and Mary Ann Goodnight hand-raised two baby buffalo to help save the species from extinction the sculptor and her husband adopt an orphaned buffalo calf of their own. Against a backdrop of the old American West A Buffalo in the House tells the story of a household situation beyond any sitcom writer’s wildest dreams.

Charlie has no idea he’s a buffalo and Roger has no idea just how strong the bond between man and buffalo can be. In the historical shadow of the near-extermination of a majestic and misunderstood animal Roger sets out to save just one buffalo.

Written in the tradition of Ian Frazier’s Great Plains and the work of Garrison Keillor and Bill Bryson A Buffalo in the House tells an important uplifting story about one animal’s ability to touch human lives and reconnect people of all ages to the vanished past.