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Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award
GOING BOVINE"Wholly unique, ambitious, tender, thought-provoking, and often fall-off-the-chair funny."
–Booklist, Starred Review All sixteen-year-old Cameron wants is to get through high school—and life in general—with a minimum of effort. It’s not a lot to ask. But that’s before he’s given some bad news: he’s sick and he’s going to die. Which totally sucks.
Hope arrives in the form of Dulcie, a loopy punk angel/possible hallucination with a bad sugar habit. She tells Cam there is a cure—if he’s willing to go in search of it. With the help of Gonzo, a death-obsessed, video-gaming dwarf, and a yard gnome who just might be the Viking god Balder, Cam sets off on the mother of all road trips through a twisted America into the heart of what matters most. |
PRAISE FOR GOING BOVINE
2011 Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award • A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in Young Adult Literature • 2012 Audie • Award Winner for Best Narration by the Author • 2012 Audie Award • Nominee for Best Teen Audiobook • Teen Cybils Awards: Nominee in 2011 • Young Adult Goodreads Choice Award: Nominee in 2011 • Young Adult Fiction James • Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award: Honor in 2011• Locus Awards: Four nominations for SF/F/H works • James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award: Honor list in 2012
"A hilarious and hallucinatory quest."
—The New York Times
"Sublimely surreal."
—People
"Libba Bray not only breaks the mold of the ubiquitous dying-teenager genre—she smashes it and grinds the tiny pieces into the sidewalk. For the record, I'd go anywhere she wanted to take me."
—The New York Times
"Offer this to fans of Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy seeking more inspired lunacy."
—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
"An unforgettable, nearly indefinable fantasy . . . wholly unique, ambitious, tender, thought-provoking, and often fall-off-the-chair funny."
—Booklist, Starred Review
"Here's one book about dying that has a wicked sense of humor."
—The Denver Post
"A laugh-out-loud tear-jerking fantastical voyage into the meaning of what is real in life."
—VOYA
"A very messed-up book, but in a good way. . . .Hilarious, random, surreal and thought-provoking."
—Guys Lit Wire
"Libba Bray's fabulous new book will, with any justice, be a cult classic. The kind of book you take with you to college, in the hopes that your roommate will turn out to have packed their own copy, too. Reading it is like discovering an alternate version of The Phantom Tollbooth, where Holden Caulfield has hit Milo over the head and stolen his car, his token, and his tollbooth. There's adventure and tragedy here, a sprinkling of romance, musical interludes, a battle-ready yard gnome who's also a Norse God, and practically a chorus line of physicists. Which reminds me: will someone, someday, take Going Bovine and turn it into a musical, preferably a rock opera? I want the sound track, the program, the T-shirt, and front row tickets."
-Kelly Link, author of Get in Trouble, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
—The New York Times
"Sublimely surreal."
—People
"Libba Bray not only breaks the mold of the ubiquitous dying-teenager genre—she smashes it and grinds the tiny pieces into the sidewalk. For the record, I'd go anywhere she wanted to take me."
—The New York Times
"Offer this to fans of Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy seeking more inspired lunacy."
—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
"An unforgettable, nearly indefinable fantasy . . . wholly unique, ambitious, tender, thought-provoking, and often fall-off-the-chair funny."
—Booklist, Starred Review
"Here's one book about dying that has a wicked sense of humor."
—The Denver Post
"A laugh-out-loud tear-jerking fantastical voyage into the meaning of what is real in life."
—VOYA
"A very messed-up book, but in a good way. . . .Hilarious, random, surreal and thought-provoking."
—Guys Lit Wire
"Libba Bray's fabulous new book will, with any justice, be a cult classic. The kind of book you take with you to college, in the hopes that your roommate will turn out to have packed their own copy, too. Reading it is like discovering an alternate version of The Phantom Tollbooth, where Holden Caulfield has hit Milo over the head and stolen his car, his token, and his tollbooth. There's adventure and tragedy here, a sprinkling of romance, musical interludes, a battle-ready yard gnome who's also a Norse God, and practically a chorus line of physicists. Which reminds me: will someone, someday, take Going Bovine and turn it into a musical, preferably a rock opera? I want the sound track, the program, the T-shirt, and front row tickets."
-Kelly Link, author of Get in Trouble, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
