Lipstein challenges our morality with a brilliant tale of guilt, greed, and how far we'll go to be good.
A wildly inventive, reality-bending trip, The Vegan holds a mirror up to its reader and poses a question only a hedge fund manager could: ls purity a convertible asset? The more Herschel disavows his original sin, and the more it threatens to be revealed, the more it becomes something else entirely: a way into a forgotten world of animals, nature, and life beyond words.
Andrew Lipstein is the author of the acclaimed novel, Last Resort.
In conversation with Christine Smallwood, the author of the novel The Life of the Mind (Hogarth), which Time magazine named one of the top ten fiction books of 2021.
Lipstein challenges our morality with a brilliant tale of guilt, greed, and how far we'll go to be good.
A wildly inventive, reality-bending trip, The Vegan holds a mirror up to its reader and poses a question only a hedge fund manager could: ls purity a convertible asset? The more Herschel disavows his original sin, and the more it threatens to be revealed, the more it becomes something else entirely: a way into a forgotten world of animals, nature, and life beyond words.
Andrew Lipstein is the author of the acclaimed novel, Last Resort.
In conversation with Christine Smallwood, the author of the novel The Life of the Mind (Hogarth), which Time magazine named one of the top ten fiction books of 2021.
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