"The novel is one of Boyle's recent best.the virtuoso.[Boyle's] masterly storytelling and shrewd social commentary have much in common with Charles Dickens; his laid-back, colloquial prose is maximalist rather than minimalist, with a touch of acute satire.If you're willing to suspend your disbelief about anthropomorphism, you'll enjoy this gripping and inescapably bittersweet book." -- Boston Globe "Talk to Me--told alternately from the point of view of the human and chimp characters--finds a sensitive issue and dives deep into an exploration that locks on and won't let go. Against a backdrop of lurid news stories of chimps living with humans, where things go horribly wrong, this novel makes a visceral kind of sense and raises uncomfortable issues of human relationships with other species. Highly recommended." -- Library Journal (starred review) " If the measure of a good story is how often you think about it after you are done, then Talk to Me .

hits the mark. Talk to Me feels real and relevant " -- BookTrib "Boyle eloquently lays out the philosophical and ethical debates of raising chimps in a human household.Boyle poignantly exposes our anthropocentric biases while exploring the nature of consciousness and reminds us of the adage about the most dangerous species in the zoo being the humans." -- Booklist.