A review by beccagomezfarrell
New World Monkeys by Nancy Mauro

2.0

The premise of the book is fine--a couple getting close to divorce spend the summer in an old, family heirloom of a house, and end up killing the town mascot of a boar, digging up the bones of an old family legend, and indulging their craziest urges in order to find themselves again. There's a lot that's right about that premise, but I'm really not fond of the idea that humans need to embrace their innate animals to have true realizations of who they are. I just don't agree, and reading a book that ultimately has that as its central idea does not appeal to me. Plus, I didn't like any of the characters. So . . . meh.