num_pages: 206
description: A rollicking globe-trotting adventure with a twist: a four-legged heroine you won't soon forgetElsie Bovary is a cow and a pretty happy one at that-her long lazy days are spent eating napping and chatting with her best friend Mallory. One night Elsie and Mallory sneak out of their pasture; but while Mallory is interested in flirting with the neighboring bulls Elsie finds herself drawn to the farmhouse. Through the window she sees the farmer's family gathered around a bright Box God-and what the Box God reveals about something called an industrial meat farm shakes Elsie's understanding of her world to its core.There's only one solution: escape to a better safer world. And so a motley crew is formed: Elsie; Jerry-excuse me Shalom-a cranky Torah-reading pig who's recently converted to Judaism; and Tom a suave (in his own mind at least) turkey who can't fly but who can work an iPhone with his beak. Toting stolen passports and slapdash human disguises they head for the airport.Elsie is our wise-cracking pop-culture-reference-dropping slyly witty narrator; Tom-who does eventually learn to fly (sort of)-dispenses psychiatric advice in a fake German accent; and Shalom rejected by his adopted people in Jerusalem ends up unexpectedly uniting Israelis and Palestinians. David Duchovny's charismatic creatures point the way toward a mutual understanding and acceptance that the world desperately needs.
language: English
title: Holy Cow
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux