Ape House

Ape House by Sara Gruen

This book follows a woman who has pledged her life to the study and care of chimpanzees. She runs a lab, teaching chimpanzees how to communicate with humans. How far will she go to protect those animals? How strong can a human/animal bond be?

As an animal lover, I enjoyed the theme of this book. I wasn’t crazy about Gruen’s execution, but thought it was a decent read. I wish she had stuck more to the relationship between the humans/chimps, instead of veering off in several directions, sometimes directions that didn't make much sense.

However, this definitely had me thinking about how animals are used and abused in our society.