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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 won’t soon forget Elsie Bovary is a cow, and a pretty happy one at that—her
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 farmer’s family gathered
around a bright Box God—and what the Box God reveals about
something called an “industrial meat farm” shakes Elsie’s
understanding of her world to its core. There’s only one solution: escape to a better, safer world.
And so a motley crew is formed: Elsie; Jerry—excuse me,
Shalom—a cranky, Torah-reading pig who’s recently converted
to Judaism; and Tom, a suave (in his own mind, at least)
turkey who can’t 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; Tom—who does eventually learn to fly
(sort of)—dispenses psychiatric advice in a fake German
accent; and Shalom, rejected by his adopted people in
Jerusalem, ends up unexpectedly uniting Israelis and
Palestinians. David Duchovny’s charismatic creatures point the way toward
a mutual understanding and acceptance that the world
desperately needs.
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