A review by dukegregory
Mammoth by Eva Baltasar

2.5

An anti-pastoral with a mess of a narrator who recognized her exploitation by men and her role as object/consumer in a world run by capital, so she chooses to go off the grid (while also wanting to become a single mother, thus needing to have sex with a man, though she is a lesbian) and subjectifies herself. But does she? She comes to recognize human interdependence, but, though animals make up a large chunk of this narrative, Baltasar seems to not really consider the animals in this hierarchy, instead rendering them solely as symbols. There just doesn't appear to me to be as much depth here as with Boulder. The ending is great though. So good, it added .5 to my rating.