A review by surfpark
The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human by Jonathan Gottschall

4.0

Gottschall flips it when he tells us that the reader is really the animal he's referencing. The book includes everything from the possible evolutionary benefits of storytelling to the cultural significance of narratives. I came into this thinking it would be a history of the oral tradition, leading to literature. Instead I was learning about the psychological benefits to storytelling I've never considered.