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Title: How to Be Human
Author: Paula Cocozza
Narrator: Alison Campbell
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-06-17
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Fiction, Literary
Publisher's Summary:
You've seen a fox.
Come face to face in an unexpected place, or at an unexpected moment.
And he has looked at you, as you have looked at him. As if he has something to tell you, or you have something to tell him.
But what if it didn't stop there?
When Mary arrives home from work one day to find a magnificent fox on her lawn - his ears spiked in attention and every hair bristling with his power to surprise - it is only the beginning. He brings gifts (at least, Mary imagines they are gifts) and gradually makes himself at home.
And as he listens to Mary, Mary listens back.
She begins to hear herself for the first time in years. Her bullish ex-boyfriend, still lurking on the fringes of her life, would be appalled. So would the neighbours with a new baby. They like only wildlife that fits with the decor. But inside Mary a wildness is growing that will not be tamed.
In this extraordinary debut, the lines between sanity and safety, obsession and delusion blur in a thrilling exploration of what makes us human.
Critic Reviews:
"How to be Human is an intriguing and subversive debut, an eerie tale that acts on the reader like a ghost story, charged with the power of the ignored and the suppressed. If we disdain our animal selves, they trail us, shadowing us at dawn and dusk. Paula Cocozza shows us that the line between the wilderness and the city is thin, easily transgressed; the ghost breathing in the thicket is our own wild nature." (Hilary Mantel)
"Intriguing and unsettling...the tricky, shifting substance of relationships is so insightfully drawn and constantly surprises." (Laura Barnett, author of The Versions of Us)
Members Reviews:
Enjoy how It was put together
Enjoy how It was put together...but thought she was too wacko to be believable ... would have enjoyed more of the Fox in the first person ..
Four Stars
Unusual narrative and very readable.
FOXY OBSESSION RESULTS IN SURVIVAL
Most of us who has ever had a pet know how very human they can beâ.in fact, in some instances they are a better version of ourselves. Even on those days when we ignore them they remain loyal, loving, non-demanding and most importantly non-judgmental. Accepting us for whom and what we are, they can bring joy and fulfillment into tedious monotony of every day, as they unselfishly provide us with a special place in their world.
In HOW TO BE HUMAN author Paula Cocozza takes us into the life of Mary who has recently split from her boyfriend/fiancé of four years and finds herself going through a mild depression. She hates her job, feels a bit âput uponâ by her neighbors and their wailing children, has lost interest in keeping a tidy house and is being stalked by her domineering and somewhat intimidating ex who still has the keys to her house and appears to not know the meaning of the word NO.
In her precarious frame of mind Mary spies a fox in her garden and after observing it becomes convinced that the fox understands her and that they have a special bond. Told from Maryâs perspective (as well as that of the sly old fox), the narrative takes us into Maryâs thoughts and her obsession with the fox who appears to be her perfect partner in life â bringing her gifts, understanding her every mood and providing solace in her time of need.
