The Short Version: Taxidermist Romie Futch is middle-aged, divorced, and nearly bankrupt. So when he sees an ad for a well-funded neuroscience research study, he signs up. The study downloads a broad swath of knowledge and he becomes a better man… but what to do with all that knowledge on the outside? Get his wife back? Hunt down the near-mythic Hogzilla? Keep on keeping on? The Review: What a wild novel. There’s something wonderfully unkempt about it, like the way unkempt wilderness is […]

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