A review by thomp649
Moo by Jane Smiley

5.0

Lots of reviews. The readers who said that none of the characters are people that you care about are right. That's because Jane Smiley detested all these jerks and got herself out of Iowa as soon as her check for the movie rights to 1000 Acres hit the mail box. I could line up every character in the book with someone I've met in my career teaching at land-grant universities, and I didn't like most of them either. It may be inside baseball for people who have serious interaction with agricultural science faculty, but it's difficult to imagine a parody of that peculiar institution that is more accurate.