I talk with author Laura Jean McKay about her Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning novel The Animals in That Country, using fiction to give voice to other animals, and how literature can help us recognize that humans are not the center of the universe--that instead we are part of a larger, in some ways scary and humbling but also more wondrous world.

Buy the book here: https://scribepublications.com/books-authors/books/the-animals-in-that-country-9781950354375

Read about Laura Jean McKay's experience visiting a great ape sanctuary here: https://www.academia.edu/37308424/You_Are_Here_creative_non_fiction

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