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The animals in that country / Laura Jean McKay.

by McKay, Laura Jean.

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Scribe Publications, 2020.

Arthur C. Clarke Awards.

Grandparent and child -- Fiction.

Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Fiction.

Wild dogs -- Fiction.

Alcoholics -- Fiction.

Epidemics -- Fiction.

Animals -- Fiction.

9781950354375 (trade pbk.)

279 p. ; 24 cm.

Jean is not your usual grandma. She's never been good at getting on with other humans, apart from her beloved granddaughter, Kimberly. Instead, she surrounds herself with animals, working as a guide in an outback wildlife park. And although Jean talks to all her charges, she has a particular soft spot for a young dingo called Sue. As disturbing news arrives of a pandemic sweeping the country, Jean realises this is no ordinary flu: its chief symptom is that its victims begin to understand the language of animals--first mammals, then birds and insects, too. As the flu progresses, the unstoppable voices become overwhelming, and many people begin to lose their minds, including Jean's infected son, Lee. When he takes off with Kimberly, heading south, Jean feels the pull to follow her kin. Setting off on their trail, with Sue the dingo riding shotgun, they find themselves in a stark, strange world in which the animal apocalypse has only further isolated people from other species.

Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, 2021.

Science fiction.

Apocalyptic fiction.

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