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02499aim a2200337Mi 4500 001 FFDD839ACD7211EABC1FA90E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20200724010019 007 sd fungnnmmned 008 121004t20202020mdunnnne z n eng d 020 $a 1980052549 020 $a 9781980052548 028 02 $a C05898 $b Recorded Books 040 $a RECBC $b eng $e rda $c RECBC $d OCLCO $d JAS $d LX# $d SILO 100 1 $a Unferth, Deb Olin, $e author. 245 10 $a Barn 8 : $b a novel / $c Deb Olin Unferth. 250 $a Unabridged. 264 1 $a Prince Frederick, Md. : $b Recorded Books, $c [2020] 300 $a 6 sound discs (7 hr., 30 min.) : $b digital, $c 4 3/4 in. 500 $a Compact discs. 511 0 $a Narrated by Brittany Pressley. 520 $a Two auditors for the U.S. egg industry go rogue and conceive a plot to steal a million chickens in the middle of the night--an entire egg farm's worth of animals. Janey and Cleveland--a spirited former runaway and the officious head of audits--assemble a precarious, quarrelsome team and descend on the farm on a dark spring evening. A series of catastrophes ensues. Deb Olin Unferth's wildly inventive novel is a heist story of a very unusual sort. Swirling with a rich array of voices, Barn 8 takes readers into the minds of these renegades: a farmer's daughter, a former director of undercover investigations, hundreds of activists, a forest ranger who suddenly comes upon forty thousand hens, and a security guard who is left on an empty farm for years. There are glimpses twenty thousand years into the future to see what chickens might evolve into on our contaminated planet. We hear what hens think happens when they die. In the end the cracked hearts of these indelible characters, their earnest efforts to heal themselves, and their radical actions will lead them to ruin or revelation. Funny, whimsical, philosophical, and heartbreaking, Barn 8 ultimately asks: What constitutes meaningful action in a world so in need of change? Unferth comes at this question with striking ingenuity, razor-sharp wit, and ferocious passion. Barn 8 is a rare comic-political drama, a tour de force for our time. 630 00 $a Animal behaviors $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Psychological fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Audiobooks. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Pressley, Brittany, $e narrator. 941 $a 1 945 $a cdab 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20200724011210.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=FFDD839ACD7211EABC1FA90E97128E48 994 $a C0 $b LX#Initiate Another SILO Locator Search