From bestselling and award-winning author T.C. Boyle a lively thought-provoking novel that
asks us what it would be like if we could really talk to the animalsWhen animal behaviorist Guy
Schermerhorn demonstrates on a TV game show that he has taught Sam his juvenile chimp to
speak in sign language Aimee Villard an undergraduate at Guy's university is so taken with
the performance that she applies to become his assistant. A romantic and intellectual
attachment soon morphs into an interspecies love triangle that pushes hard at the boundaries of
consciousness and the question of what we know and how we know it. What if it were possible to
speak to the members of another species?to converse with them not just give commands or coach
them but to really have an exchange of ideas and a meeting of minds? Did apes have God? Did
they have souls? Did they know about death and redemption? About prayer? The economy rockets
space? Did they miss the jungle? Did they even know what the jungle was? Did they dream? Make
wishes? Hope for the future? These are some the questions T.C. Boyle asks in his wide-ranging
and hilarious new novel Talk to Me exploring what it means to be human to communicate with
another and to truly know another person?or animal...
