Fowl Eulogies is an absurd fairy tale for the ethical carnivore, fiction of perfect madness, of brutal and unprecedented humor. From the meadow to the supermarket, this dazzling first novel of mischief and feathers, brings to life the singular poetry of the industrial chicken.
"In this first novel from French author Rico, a woman’s life and desires swerve wildly after she inherits her mother’s chicken farm. A quirky, moving novel propelled by love, grief, and violence." ―Kirkus Reviews
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.
Genre: Literary Fiction
"In this first novel from French author Rico, a woman’s life and desires swerve wildly after she inherits her mother’s chicken farm. A quirky, moving novel propelled by love, grief, and violence." ―Kirkus Reviews
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.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Praise for this book
"The book is extraordinary! It's a love fable. Disturbing, compelling, and heartbreaking, and - like some great magic trick - utterly convincing. I've more to say, about the warnings in the story, the soft horror of homogeny, about how things - endeavour, care, a species - mutate when taken from their natural place ... but the story itself says it all much better. It's brilliant." - Cynan Jones
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