Intake Numbers
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Intake Numbers
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Narrated by:
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Devin Miller's voice replica
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Written by:
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Iris Noem
This title uses a narrator's voice replica
About this listen
Mara has built her life around hard decisions. As the director of an overcrowded animal shelter, she knows compassion alone is not enough. Every intake is a calculation. Every yes has a cost. Every life must fit within the limits of space, staffing, and time.
When a senior dog named Calder is surrendered, Mara makes room for him. Then another old dog arrives. And another. What begins as a single act of mercy soon becomes a quiet reckoning, one that draws scrutiny from donors, board members, and the system around her. As the shelter shifts under the weight of what it is becoming, Mara must decide how far she is willing to go to protect the vulnerable, and what it will cost her to do it.
Intake Numbers is a moving literary novel about care, dignity, institutional pressure, and the complicated tenderness of trying to do the right thing.
©2026 Iris Noem (P)2026 Iris Noem