Fowl Eulogies
ISBN-13: 9781912987429
Author(s): Lucie Rico
Subjects: FA, FBA
Publisher: World Editions Ny Llc
Publisher Imprint: World Editions
Publication Date: 04-05-2023
Format: Paperback / softback
Availability: In stock
£13.99
About the book
Upon her mother's death, Paule Rojas, a vegetarian city-dweller, returns to the chicken farm where she grew up. Pressured to fulfil her mother's last request, Paule rediscovers pleasure and meaning in running the old family business. Yet, eager to bring something of herself to a family tradition, Paule embarks on increasingly intricate ways of helping the chickens to self-actualize before their deaths. She records the chickens' life stories, adding them to the labels that decorate the vacuum-packed meat sent off to market - an individual biography for every chicken. But not all runs smooth in her childhood village; Paule finds she has few friends and many enemies. She is forced to spread her wings, relocate her livestock, and oversee the construction of an urban farm of never-before-seen practices and proportions.