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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 wonโt soon forget Elsie Bovary is a cow, and a pretty happy one at thatโher 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 farmerโs family gathered around a bright Box Godโand what the Box God reveals about something called an โindustrial meat farmโ shakes Elsieโs understanding of her world to its core. Thereโs only one solution: escape to a better, safer world. And so a motley crew is formed: Elsie; Jerryโexcuse me, Shalomโa cranky, Torah-reading pig whoโs recently converted to Judaism; and Tom, a suave (in his own mind, at least) turkey who canโt 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; Tomโwho does eventually learn to fly (sort of)โdispenses psychiatric advice in a fake German accent; and Shalom, rejected by his adopted people in Jerusalem, ends up unexpectedly uniting Israelis and Palestinians. David Duchovnyโs charismatic creatures point the way toward a mutual understanding and acceptance that the world desperately needs.
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