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    Animals: A Novel

    By Don Lepan

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    A riveting dystopian novel that examines how humans mistreat animals, and each other: “A powerful piece of writing, and a disturbing call to conscience” (J.M. Coetzee).
     
    It is more than 100 years in the future and the horrors of factory farming, combined with the widespread abuse of antibiotics, have led to mass extinctions. The majority of all mammals, birds, and fish that humans have eaten for millennia no longer exist. Those not fully capable are deemed undeserving of an equal share of scarce medical resources and are ultimately classified as less than human. As paranoia about our food supplies spreads, a forceful new logic takes hold; in the blink of a millennial eye the disenfranchised have become our food.
     
    Don LePan’s “well-plotted” and “formally audacious” novel shows us a world at once eerily foreign and disturbingly familiar (Booklist). It follows the dramatic events that unfold within a family after they take in an abandoned mongrel boy. In the sharp-edged poignancy of the ethical questions it poses, in the striking narrative techniques it employs, and above all, in the remarkable power of the story it tells, Animals proves itself a transformative work of fiction.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateMay 12, 2010
    ISBN9781593763657
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    • 2/5
      Very grim scary view of the world that views humans with special needs as mongrels...they can end up as a family or be sent to a chattel farm to be harvested as food since all the animals have been wiped off the earth. I was very disturbed by this book. Left me feeling very unsettled.
    • 4/5
      No Disney ending here folks. Ooo. Could be possible. I would like to know what the Deaf communities think of it.
    • 3/5
      Animals is a dystopian novel set in the not-too-distant future where pollution has caused the rate of birth defects to rise. After the extinction of most of the domesticated animals common today (cows, cats, &c), society turns to cannibalizing the handicapped, considered to be "subhuman". Clearly the subject is disturbing, what is more unsettling is the parallel that LePan draws between this future and the current exploitation of non-human animals for food and companionship. The comparison is a little heavy-handed at times, but is still effective. Where things seem to unravel a bit for me is at the end when LePan breaks the narrative and makes an indictment against factory farming, but says that free-range meat, eggs and dairy are (more) acceptable. This in completely incongruous with the implications the novel makes. Would it be okay to cannibalize a mentally impaired child if he/she was raised kindly? I think not. However if you're interested I would still give Animals a read. It is well written and has an interesting narrative form. The story is devastating and original, and definitely one that is important for our time.