Infuriated, devastated, exasperated, frustrated... Sometimes you'll read a book that leaves you with more emotions than you can list and you can deal with. Amanda Desiree's Bram Stoker shortlisted (for Superior Achievement in a First Novel) debut Smithy is the mother of those books. Even though I have finished this a few weeks ago, it so threw me off the tracks that I needed some time to collect my thoughts and especially feelings before writing a review. It’s not unusual for me to feel bewildered and my hate for humanity refreshed after reading stuff about what we, as a human species, are doing to animals and with which infuriating entitlement and ruinous normalcy we do it. Smithy , the story of a chimpanzee locked in a mansion in the early 70s for the purposes of a research experiment on the ability of apes to express themselves through sign language, spoke to that spot in me.
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