This is a spoiler-tastic review. Proceed with caution. Can you complain that a book about a family adopting a chimpanzee is predictable? I think I’ve spent too much time reading about behavioral studies and animal behavior because I knew about quite a few of the real-life chimps this book seemed to take inspiration from, including poor Nim Chimpsky who seems to be the primary source for the novel. But it’s less the science that’s predictable; this chimp’s sister, the protagonist of our book, has a […]
Not in the way of the ancient greeks, but like a human loves a dog, or a robot loves a human, or occasionally, the way a gorilla loves a kitty
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler