Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Holy Cow

Holy Cow by David Duchovny   206 pp.

Elsie, the cow (no, not the Borden one) and a friend sneak out of the pasture so her friend can romance a bull. Elsie spies the "God Box" in the farmers living room and watches a horrifying program about the meat industry. Elsie and other farm animals including a pig recently conversted to Judaism and an IPhone using turkey don disguises and, with stolen passports, set out for a new life. Eventually the threesome end up uniting the Israelis and the Palestinians. Elsie is the wise-cracking narrator of this escapade who leaves us with this message:
"You, me, the animals in the wild, the animal at your feet, the animal on your plate, the person next to you--
We are all one
we are all holy cows
Moo"

Enough said.

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