Frankie Conner, a first-year graduate student at UC Berkeley, is pursuing her dream of becoming a neuroscientist and discovering the cause of her depression and anxiety. However, on her first day of the program, she meets a group of talking animals who claim to have an urgent message for her. Frankie must decide whether to betray the animals she has fallen in love with or give up her dream of neuroscience.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 16 April 2024
Publisher: SparkPress

Frankie Conner, a first-year graduate student at UC Berkeley, has finally found her calling: becoming a neuroscientist and discovering the cause of her depression and anxiety, with the hope of finding a cure for herself and others like her. However, on her first day of the program, Frankie meets a mysterious group of talking animals who claim to have an urgent message for her. The problem is, they are not willing to share it until she is ready. While Frankie's new friends may not have her highly evolved, state-of-the-art, exalted human brain, they do know things she doesn't—poems, scientific facts, and what happened in the forgotten years before her adoption. Frankie cannot dismiss her conversations with these animals as mere dreams, but she also cannot accept them as real. To prove she is still sane, she investigates her past and defies the professor who heads her lab to conduct a series of scientific experiments to test just how much animals are capable of communicating. Just when Frankie uncovers the truth, she has to make an impossible choice: betray the animals she has fallen in love with or give up her dream of neuroscience, her last chance at success, and everything she thought she knew.

This Animal Body

is printed on FSC-certified paper from responsibly-managed, environmentally-sound sources.

Dimension: 215 x 139 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781684632428