Barn 8, Deb Olin Unferth
Barn 8, Deb Olin Unferth
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Barn 8

Author: Deb Olin Unferth

Narrator: Brittany Pressley

Unabridged: 7 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/03/2020


Synopsis

Janey and Cleveland are two auditors for the US egg industry who 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. They assemble a precarious, quarrelsome
team and descend on the farm on a dark spring evening. It doesn’t go as planned.

In her most powerful work yet, Deb Olin Unferth tells a wildly inventive, unforgettable heist story, with one million
nonhuman consciousnesses at its center. Funny, philosophical, heartening 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 that could have been written
by no one else.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Roxane

Imaginative. Ambitious. I love the interplay of genres here, how it starts off as one thing and then becomes another and then another. Pacing was off at times. And sometimes the characters felt indistinct. Still, a good novel.......more

Goodreads review by Judy

My goodness, this crazy novel was so good. Janey, a teenager from Brooklyn, runs away to find the father she has just found out she has. She ends up in Ohio where she falls in with some eco terrorist folks. They plot the heist of a million chickens, which are from just one agribusiness farm of egg l......more

Goodreads review by Viv

3.5 stars, rounded up for the brilliant epilogue Barn 8 is a heist story with a difference - the plot being to liberate an entire industrial unit's worth of hens and comparisons made to The Monkey Wrench Gang made me think it would be right up my street. Initially, however, I was unmoved. At the half......more