TALK TO ME

Stacey Glemboski performs this unique audiobook about the power of human love for an animal with a convincing style and unswerving fairness. The warmth in her voice and her skilled pacing work well. She has a fine ability to get inside the thoughts of the characters--human and simian. An unusual love triangle--among a researcher, an assistant, and Sam the chimp--serves as the hinge for a remarkable story. The tale of a chimp that can communicate with sign language is both wondrous and ominous: The professor who studies the chimp appears on the TV show "To Tell the Truth" with his gifted charge but does his research at the behest of a heartless boss. This is an enjoyable excursion into the links between humans and animals. A.D.M. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine [Published: SEPTEMBER 2021]