Holy Cow

A rollicking, globe-trotting adventure with a twist: a four-legged heroine you wont soon forget Elsie 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 farmers family gathered around a bright Box God—and what the Box God reveals about something called an “industrial meat farm†shakes Elsies understanding of her world to its core. Theres 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 whos recently converted to Judaism; and Tom, a suave (in his own mind, at least) turkey who cant 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 Duchovnys charismatic creatures point the way toward a mutual understanding and acceptance that the world desperately needs.