The Secret Life of Pets meets The Walking Dead.' - Karen Joy Fowler, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves 'A plucky hero, a boisterous tale, startling prose and eerie events combine for a thoroughly enjoyable account of the end of the world as we know it. the irrepressible, cursing crow is my new favourite apocalyptic hero.' - Helen Macdonald, author of H Is for Hawk ' Hollow Kingdom is a nature book for our own age, an exuberant, glittering, hard-hitting mashup of Dawn of the Dead and The Incredible Journey.It's transformative, poignant, and funny as hell. 'A heavy-handed zombie apocalypse-meets-nature documentary meant to inspire humans to do better, but it loses its way.' - Kirkus Reviews S.T.'s complicated personality and the masterful blend of humorous and tragic make this novel an eloquent, emotional exploration of survival during an unthinkable cataclysm.' - Publishers Weekly ' fresh, alarming apocalypse from the perspectives of intelligent, communicative animals in her hilarious debut. Hollow Kingdom is a humorous, big-hearted, and boundlessly beautiful romp through the apocalypse and the world that comes after, where even a cowardly crow can become a hero. Humanity's extinction has seemingly arrived, and the only one determined to save it is a foul-mouthed crow whose knowledge of the world around him comes from his TV-watching education. is left with no choice but to abandon his old life and venture out into a wild and frightening new world with his trusty steed Dennis, where he discovers that the neighbors are devouring each other and the local wildlife is abuzz with rumors of dangerous new predators roaming Seattle.

His most tried-and-true remedies-from beak-delivered beer to the slobbering affection of Big Jim's loyal but dim-witted dog, Dennis-fail to cure Big Jim's debilitating malady.

starts to feel like something isn't quite right. Then Big Jim's eyeball falls out of his head, and S.T. S.T., a domesticated crow, is a bird of simple pleasures: hanging out with his owner Big Jim, trading insults with Seattle's wild crows (those idiots), and enjoying the finest food humankind has to offer: Cheetos ®. One pet crow fights to save humanity from an apocalypse in this uniquely hilarious debut from a genre-bending literary author.

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