- Published: 23 April 2024
- ISBN: 9780593420539
- Imprint: Riverhead
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 304
- RRP: $40.00
The Last Animal
A Novel
- Published: 23 April 2024
- ISBN: 9780593420539
- Imprint: Riverhead
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 304
- RRP: $40.00
Praise for The Last Animal:
"Ausubel’s fourth volume of highly original fabulist fiction. . .marries an extraordinary and slightly bananas scientific adventure with a deeply felt portrait of a mother and daughters healing from terrible loss. . . .An amazing amount of humor, pizazz, wisdom, and wonder packed into a story that is essentially about processing grief."–Kirkus, STARRED review
“The Ice Age meets the Anthropocene in this gem from Ausubel… Ausubel is at her best when exploring the ties that bind, especially in a family flung into unprecedented circumstances. In charting the parallel worlds of grief, scientific devotion, and adolescence, Ausubel comes up with a seamless global caper that brims with compassion and makes the reader glad to be alive.”–Publishers Weekly, STARRED review
“[A] transfixing, fabulist tale centering the life-giving power of women within a scientific frame… a feminist Jurassic Park. The narration...is lush and full of wonder as a family is broken and reshaped, and the women come of age, evolve, and grapple with the limits and conflicts of biology and ambition.”–Booklist