![]() McKay’s novel about a pandemic which causes humans and animals to be able to talk to each other is a startlingly original exploration of human/animal communication, a powerful and discomforting read that asks probing questions about what it means to be human. ![]() Laura Jean McKay’s The Animals In That Country (2020) deservedly won the 2021 Arthur C. ![]() Until they close like clouds, moving from blobs to ships in full sail, and I see the sense, loud and clear: Bits and pieces, no damned order or sense. Shake my stupid head to clear it of the meanings, but they form out of hops, barks, and whiffs. Piss cakes wafting from the bottom of yellow streams. It’s like running alongside a urinal in a pub. A big boy wallaroo has rubbed his scent, slick as oil, over the grass at the road edge. In stench, in calls, in piss, in tracks, in blood, in shit, in sex, in bodies. “Birds are making nonsensical sounds above, but all around me, trails of glowing messages have been laid out overnight. ![]()
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