Talk to Me

"The novel is one of Boyle's recent best. . . the virtuoso. . . [Boyle's] masterly storytelling and shrewd social commentary have much in common with Charles Dickens; his laid-back, colloquial prose is maximalist rather than minimalist, with a touch of acute satire. . . If you're willing to suspend your disbelief about anthropomorphism, you'll enjoy this gripping and inescapably bittersweet book." - Boston Globe

"Talk to Me-told alternately from the point of view of the human and chimp characters-finds a sensitive issue and dives deep into an exploration that locks on and won't let go. . . . Against a backdrop of lurid news stories of chimps living with humans, where things go horribly wrong, this novel makes a visceral kind of sense and raises uncomfortable issues of human relationships with other species. Highly recommended." - Library Journal (starred review)

" If the measure of a good story is how often you think about it after you are done, then Talk to Me . . . hits the mark. . . . Talk to Me feels real and relevant " - BookTrib

"Boyle eloquently lays out the philosophical and ethical debates of raising chimps in a human household. . . Boyle poignantly exposes our anthropocentric biases while exploring the nature of consciousness and reminds us of the adage about the most dangerous species in the zoo being the humans." - Booklist