Barn 8 : a novel /
Janey and Cleveland are two auditors for the US egg industry who go rogue and conceive a plot to steal a million chickens in the middle of the night, an entire egg farm's worth of animals. They assemble a precarious, quarrelsome team and descend on the farm on a dark spring evening. It doesn�...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis :
Graywolf Press,
[2020]
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| Summary: | Janey and Cleveland are two auditors for the US egg industry who go rogue and conceive a plot to steal a million chickens in the middle of the night, an entire egg farm's worth of animals. They assemble a precarious, quarrelsome team and descend on the farm on a dark spring evening. It doesn't go as planned. In her most powerful work yet, Deb Olin Unferth tells a wildly inventive, unforgettable heist story, with one million nonhuman consciousnesses at its center. Funny, philosophical, heartening and heartbreaking, Barn 8 ultimately asks what constitutes meaningful action in a world so in need of change? Unferth comes at this question with striking ingenuity, razor-sharp wit and ferocious passion. Barn 8 is a rare comic-political drama that could have been written by no one else. |
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| Physical Description: | 282 pages ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 1644450151 9781644450154 |