From the author of Water for Elephants comes the story of a family of bonobo apes that is violently torn from their laboratory by animal liberation activists and placed on a TV reality show. Like Gruen's phenomenal bestseller Water for Elephants, this novel explores humans' relationships with animals and shows that animals have much to teach people about what it means to be human.


 

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"Sara Gruen’s new novel Ape House will be certain to please fans of her wildly popular 2007 novel Water for Elephants...This is a satisfying, entertaining page-turner of a novel."
—Sacramento Book Review
 
“Gruen’s astute, wildly entertaining tale of interspecies connection is a novel of verve and conscience.”
—Booklist (starred review)

"Sara Gruen knows things - she knows them in her mind and in her heart. And, out of what she knows, she has created a true thriller that is addictive from its opening sentence. Devour it to find out what happens next, but also to learn remarkable and moving things about life on this planet. Very, very few novels can change the way you look at the world around you. This one does."
—Robert Goolrick, author of A Reliable Wife

"I read Ape House in one joyous breath. Ever an advocate for animals, Gruen brings them to life with the passion of a novelist and the accuracy of a scientist. She has already done more for bonobos than I could do in a lifetime. The novel is immaculately researched and lovingly crafted. If people fall in love with our forgotten, fascinating, endangered relative, it will be because of Ape House."
—Vanessa Woods, author of Bonobo Handshake




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"I really enjoyed Sara Gruen's novel Ape House. It was touching, funny, dramatic, quirky and full of information. I feel that I learned something while reading about the Bonobos and can't wait to pick up Water for Elephants."
- Lauren J, Ontario

"I enjoyed the multiple layers in this story and found I could not put the book down."
- Cathy B, Ontario

"I was extremely excited to read this book, as I found Water For Elephants fascinating. I was not disappointed. This is one of those books which you just can't put down. Overall entertaining and insightful. A book you keep thinking about once it's done."
- Erin M, Ontario


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Canadian author SARA GRUEN is the author of the award-winning #1 bestselling novel Water for Elephants, as well as the bestseller Riding Lessons and Flying Changes. Gruen was born in Vancouver and raised in London, Ontario. She studied English literature at Carleton University in Ottawa. She shares her North Carolina home with her own version of a blended family: a husband, three children, four cats, two dogs, two horses, and a goat. In order to write this novel, Gruen studied linguistics and a system of lexigrams so she could communicate directly with the bonobos living at the Great Ape Trust in Des Moines, Iowa. She now considers them to be part of her extended family and, according to the bonobos, the feeling is mutual.


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