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A Modern-Day Dairy Tale
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
February 2015
On Sale: February 3, 2015
Featuring: Elsie Bovary; Mallory
224 pages
ISBN: 0374172072
EAN: 9780374172077
Kindle: B00LRXCFDY
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A rollicking, globe-trotting adventure with a twist: a four-legged heroine you wonβt soon forget Elsie Bovary is a cow, and a pretty happy one at thatβher long, lazy days are spent eating, napping, and chatting with her best friend, Mallory. One night, Elsie and Mallory sneak out of their pasture; but while Mallory is interested in flirting with the neighboring bulls, Elsie finds herself drawn to the farmhouse. Through the window, she sees the farmerβs family gathered around a bright Box Godβand what the Box God reveals about something called an βindustrial meat farmβ shakes Elsieβs understanding of her world to its core. Thereβs only one solution: escape to a better, safer world. And so a motley crew is formed: Elsie; Jerryβexcuse me, Shalomβa cranky, Torah-reading pig whoβs recently converted to Judaism; and Tom, a suave (in his own mind, at least) turkey who canβt fly, but who can work an iPhone with his beak. Toting stolen passports and slapdash human disguises, they head for the airport. Elsie is our wise-cracking, pop-culture-reference-dropping, slyly witty narrator; Tomβwho does eventually learn to fly (sort of)βdispenses psychiatric advice in a fake German accent; and Shalom, rejected by his adopted people in Jerusalem, ends up unexpectedly uniting Israelis and Palestinians. David Duchovnyβs charismatic creatures point the way toward a mutual understanding and acceptance that the world desperately needs.
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