Talking Animals. Joni Murphy. FSG Originals, $16 trade paper (p) ISBN In this bighearted if flawed eco-fiction satire, pun-loving alpaca Alfonzo Velloso Faca takes on. 3 rows · A fable for our times, Joni Murphy’s Talking Animals takes place in an all-animal world. A fable for our times, Joni Murphy’s Talking Animals takes place in an all-animal world where creatures rather like us are forced to deal with an all-too-familiar landscape of soul-crushing jobs, polluted oceans, and a creeping sense of doom. It’s New York City, nowish. Lemurs brew espresso. Birds tend bar.
Talking Animals by Joni Murphy. Monday, August 3, at AM. Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux/FSG Originals on August 4, Fables about animals who behave as humans are often intended to provide insight into human nature. In part, Talking Animals. Joni Murphy's novel Talking Animals is a modern-day political satire that cuts almost too close to the bone, with echoes of Orwell's Animal Farm that reverberate throughout the subways and endless numbered streets of her not-so-fictional New York City. Because if we needed an update to that classic critique of totalitarianism, of course it would be set in the very home of American. In her recently published second novel, Talking Animals, Joni Murphy creates a version of New York City that is populated entirely by animals (of the non-human variety). Her tale follows Alfonzo Vellosso Faca (alpaca) as he moves through mind-numbing bureaucracies and (potentially) emancipatory revolutionary spaces.
A fable for modern times, Joni Murphy’s Talking Animals features a human-less world run by an animal kingdom facing the same natural disasters, encroaching apocalypses, and existential crises that keep everyone from a good night’s sleep. Parrots own cafes and lemurs run the espresso machines. A fable for our times, Joni Murphy’s Talking Animals takes place in an all-animal world where creatures rather like us are forced to deal with an all-too-familiar landscape of soul-crushing jobs, polluted oceans, and a creeping sense of doom. It’s New York City, nowish. Lemurs brew espresso. Birds tend bar. A fable for modern times, Joni Murphy’s Talking Animals takes place in an all-animal world where creatures rather like us are forced to deal with an all-too-familiar landscape of soul-crushing jobs, polluted oceans, and a creeping sense of doom. It’s New York City, nowish. Lemurs brew espresso. Birds tend bar.
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