{"product_id":"barn-8","title":"Barn 8","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne disaffected administrator, one disenchanted teenager, four hundred and twenty-one vegan extremists, sixty trucks, and nine hundred thousand grumpy layer hens awaiting liberation. In barns. Six barns. No, wait, seven. No, wait ... \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo auditors for the US egg industry conceive a plot to liberate an entire egg farm’s worth of animals, with catastrophic results. This wildly inventive but utterly plausible novel about a heist of a very unusual kind swirls with a rich array of voices: a farmer’s daughter, hundreds of activists, a forest ranger who stumbles upon forty thousand hens, and a security guard abandoned for years on a farm. We glimpse the evolution of chickens twenty thousand years from now. We hear what hens think happens when they die. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And at the heart of this more-than-plucky novel lies the question: what constitutes meaningful action in a world so in need of change? With towering ingenuity, eviscerating wit, and unflappable passion,\u003ci\u003e Barn 8\u003c\/i\u003e is a true rare breed, a comic-political drama, and a tour de force for our time. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e''A novel like no other: An urgent moral fantasia, a post-human parable, a tender portrait of animal dignity and genius.'' \u003cb\u003eDana Spiotta\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e''Deb Olin Unferth''s hilarious genius is on dazzling display in this novel. Come for the brilliant insights about our faltering civilisation. Stay for the revolutionaries and the chickens.'' \u003cb\u003eJenny Offill\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57316074160510,"sku":"NW9781911508885","price":9.72,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781911508885.jpg?v=1778599710","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/barn-8","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}