Ape House

Ape House

Isabel Duncan, a scientist at the Great Ape Language Lab, doesn&#39;t understand people, but animals she gets--especially the bonobos. Isabel feels more comfortable in their world than she&#39;s ever felt among humans ...until she meets John Thigpen, a very married reporter who braves the ever-present animal rights protesters outside the lab to see what&#39;s really going on inside. <br /> <br /> When an explosion rocks the lab, severely injuring Isabel and &quot;liberating&quot; the apes, John&#39;s human interest piece turns into the story of a lifetime, one he&#39;ll risk his career and his marriage to follow. Then a reality TV show, Ape House, featuring the missing apes debuts under mysterious circumstances, and it immediately becomes the biggest--and unlikeliest--phenomenon in the history of modern media. <br /> <br /> Ape House delivers great entertainment, but it also opens the animal world to us in ways few novels have done, securing Sara Gruen&#39;s place as a master storyteller who allows us to see ourselves as we never have before.