Hollow Kingdom's protagonist is a domesticated pet crow named S.T., which stands for "Shit Turd." S.T.'s affinity for foul language and junk food-especially Cheetos-is inherited from his owner Big Jim, a loutish drunk living in Seattle who spends his days reading pornographic magazines and hooking up with women on Tinder. PEN/Faulkner award-winning author Karen Joy Fowler accurately described the book as " The Secret Lives of Pets meets The Walking Dead." At the end of 2019, Hollow Kingdom was included on a number of Best of the Year lists including ones published by NPR, Book Riot, and Good Housekeeping. It features anthropomorphized versions of animals as its protagonists and antagonists. What could possibly go wrong? ( From the publisher.Hollow Kingdom (2019), a science fiction fantasy novel by American author Kira Jane Buxton, imagines a post-apocalyptic world in which humans have so polluted the world and their bodies and that they become zombies, leaving pets and wild animals to fend for themselves. Humanity's extinction has seemingly arrived, and the only one determined to save it is a cowardly crow whose only knowledge of the world comes from TV. Local wildlife is abuzz with rumors of Seattle's dangerous new predators. is left with no choice but to abandon his old life and venture out into a wild and frightening new world with his trusty steed Dennis, where he suddenly discovers that the neighbors are devouring one other. starts to think something's not quite right.īig Jim's tried-and-true remedies-from beak-delivered beer to the slobbering affection of his loyal but dim-witted dog, Dennis-fail to cure his debilitating malady.
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S.T., a domesticated crow, is a bird of simple pleasures: hanging out with his owner Big Jim, trading insults with Seattle's wild crows (i.e.
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