Which reminds will someone, someday, take Going Bovine and turn it into a musical, preferably a rock opera? I want the sound track, the program, the T-shirt, and front row tickets.'- Kelly Link, author of Get in Trouble, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize There's adventure and tragedy here, a sprinkling of romance, musical interludes, a battle-ready yard gnome who's also a Norse God, and practically a chorus line of physicists. Reading it is like discovering an alternate version of The Phantom Tollbooth, where Holden Caulfield has hit Milo over the head and stolen his car, his token, and his tollbooth. The kind of book you take with you to college, in the hopes that your roommate will turn out to have packed their own copy, too. ' Libba Bray's fabulous new book will, with any justice, be a cult classic. 'A hilarious and hallucinatory quest.'- The New York Times into the heart of what matters most.įrom acclaimed author Libba Bray comes a dark comedic journey that poses the Why are we here? What is real? What makes microwave popcorn so good? Why must we die? And how do we really learn to live? With the help of a death-obsessed, video-gaming dwarf and a yard gnome, Cam sets off on the mother of all road trips through a twisted America. She tells Cam there is a cure-if he’s willing to go in search of it. Hope arrives in the winged form of Dulcie, a loopy punk angel/possible hallucination with a bad sugar habit. But that’s before he’s given some bad he’s sick and he’s going to die. Printz Award for literary excellence is 'smart, funny, and layered,' raves Entertainment Weekly.Īll 16-year-old Cameron wants is to get through high school-and life in general-with a minimum of effort.

From the author of the Gemma Doyle trilogy and The Diviners series, this groundbreaking New York Times bestseller and winner of the Michael L.

Going Bovine by Libba Bray