Bibliograph

How to be human, a novel, Paula Cocozza

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How to be human, a novel, Paula Cocozza

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

How to be human

Responsibility statement

Paula Cocozza

Sub title

a novel

Summary

A debut novel of the breakdown of a marriage, suburbian claustrophobia, and a woman's unseemly passion for a fox. One summer's night, Mary comes home from a midnight ramble to find a baby lying on her back door step. Has Mary stolen the baby from next door? Has the baby's mother, Mary's neighbor, left her there in her acute state of post-natal depression? Or was the baby brought to Mary as a gift by the fox who is increasingly coming to dominate her life? On leave from work, unsettled by the proximity of her ex, and struggling with her hostile neighbors, Mary has become increasingly captivated by a magnificent fox who is always in her garden. First she sees him wink at her, then he brings her presents, and finally she invites him into her house. As the boundaries between the domestic and the wild blur, and the neighbors set out to exterminate the fox, it is unclear if Mary will save the fox, or the fox save Mary

Target audience

adult

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