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Beep

A Novel

July 16, 2024 | Hardcover
ISBN: 9781643755618
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Description

An ebullient, funny, and hugely original novel told from the perspective of Beep, a squirrel monkey who--with the help of a brilliant young girl-- forges the way forward for a planet in crisis.

In this immensely enjoyable and wise novel, it takes a sweet and personable squirrel monkey, Beep, to help us see the world we live in more clearly. While intending only to go deeper and higher into the Costa Rican rain forest to find a mate, he instead meets Inga, a kindly American tween on vacation with her family. Inadvertently, Beep travels to Manhattan with Inga. With her devoted help--and a bit of inspiration from a visiting Greta Thunberg, along with a dramatic zoo liberation--Beep manages to change the destiny of the world. He even finds his monkey love. Along the way, a vast cast of engaging and perceptive animals have a great deal to say about humanity and the divisions among us, our alien cities, our strange practices, our folly, as well as our beauty, and our promise, unfulfilled.

For fans of Shelby Van Pelt's Remarkably Bright Creatures and Dave Eggers's The Eyes and the Impossible, Beep is full of humor, inspiration, and remarkable new ways of understanding how we live. Urgent but never earnest in the face of the increasing threats to our planet, Beep the monkey inspires us all to stop being the problem and start being the solution, loving and laughing all the way.]]>

About this Author

Bill Roorbach is the author of ten books, including the Montana Award-winning Lucky Turtle, The Girl of the Lake, the Kirkus Prize finalist The Remedy for Love, the bestselling Life Among Giants, and the Flannery O'Connor Award-winning collection Big Bend. Roorbach has received fellowships from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. His craft book, Writing Life Stories, has been in print for over twenty-five years. His writing has appeared in Harper's, the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic,The New York Times Book Review, Ploughshares, Granta, Ecotone, New York magazine, The American Scholar, and other publications. He lives in Maine with his family.

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ISBN: 9781643755618
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2024-07-16

Reviews

Washington Post]]>

Beep is a love story most of all, told with the poetry of a pure heart."--Elizabeth McKenzie, author of The Dog of the North]]>

Kate Christensen, author of Welcome Home, Stranger]]>

Jennifer Finney Boylan, author of She's Not There and co-author of Mad Honey]]>

Kate Colby, author of Reverse Engineer and I Mean]]>

Beep? Let me count the ways. A novel for a new era, with a monkey serving as transmitter of the knowledge our species desperately needs. Full of heart, brilliantly written, with the wild Roorbachian humor and grace we've come to expect. Delight in Beep, Monkey. Hold tight."
 --Sarah Braunstein, author of Bad Animals]]>

Booklist]]>

Beep is a picaresque adventure about climate change, as told by a traveling squirrel monkey. The experience of reading it, which entails inhabiting monkey consciousness to see the world through monkey eyes, described in monkey language, is just about psychedelic... In my opinion, Beep is destined to be a cult classic... Check it out if you dare." --WYPR]]>

Beep melds hope, humor, a zoo-break and an outsider's perspective on humankind... Propulsive... with such winsome verve and exuberance... Roorbach fans will find much to love in this big-hearted, simian-centered highwire act... It's [Beep's] world now, we're just living in it."--Portland Press Herald]]>

Washington Independent Review of Books]]>

"The event is a celebration of Bill's most creative novel yet, Beep, which features the wisdom and insight of Beep, a squirrel monkey who saves the world. In Beep, Roorbach's signature lyricism and sweeping lighthearted prose shines."--Left Bank Books]]>

Kirkus Reviews]]>

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