The Savage family is close-knit, but everyone has something to hide--from father Titus's shady business dealings, to mother Angelica's dangerously compulsive shopping habits, to 12-year-old Ivan's increasingly lethal pranks. But teenager Sasha's secret trumps them all: she is dating a vegetarian. This trait will never fly with the rest of the Savages, who are...uniquely carnivorous.
Problems start to pile up. Sasha's boyfriend convinces her to try going vegetarian for a month, but then leaves her for a vegan vigilante. Angelica attempts to pay her mounting credit card bill by allowing commercials to film in the family home, until one of Ivan's pranks leaves a model dead in their bathroom. A detective hired to investigate Titus's predatory business affairs notices the model's disappearance, and starts to think that there may be something more sinister to the perfect-seeming Savages.
He's right, of course--they're cannibals.
The Savage family is close-knit, but everyone has something to hide--from father Titus's shady business dealings, to mother Angelica's dangerously compulsive shopping habits, to 12-year-old Ivan's increasingly lethal pranks. But teenager Sasha's secret trumps them all: she is dating a vegetarian. This trait will never fly with the rest of the Savages, who are...uniquely carnivorous.
Problems start to pile up. Sasha's boyfriend convinces her to try going vegetarian for a month, but then leaves her for a vegan vigilante. Angelica attempts to pay her mounting credit card bill by allowing commercials to film in the family home, until one of Ivan's pranks leaves a model dead in their bathroom. A detective hired to investigate Titus's predatory business affairs notices the model's disappearance, and starts to think that there may be something more sinister to the perfect-seeming Savages.
He's right, of course--they're cannibals.
Matt Whyman is a distinctive voice in cutting edge teen fiction. His books include the acclaimed Boy Kills Man and the Carl Hobbes thrillers, Icecore and Goldstrike. He also writes advice columns for numerous teenage magazines, and his books for adults include the comic memoir Oink! My Life with Minipigs.
"Wickedly funny and mildly disturbing Whyman's taste for the
bizarre is grislier than most, and a gruesome finale is
particularly unsettling. But it's his choice phrasing (the family's
victims are "free range") and spot-on comedic delivery, seen
especially in 12-year-old Ivan's pointed practical jokes, that make
the book so digestible." "Publishers Weekly"
"I devoured (there's no other way to put it) "The Savages." And
they were delicious! Seriously. I absolutely loved the book. It was
funny and fascinating, occasionally repulsive, and beautifully
written. Also quite thought-provoking, since I have an uneasy
relationship with meat-eating, yet can't quite commit to
vegetarianism. What I especially loved is how caring and tender the
Savage family was. I'll be on the lookout for more of Matt Whyman's
writing from here on in. I'm a fan!" Ellen Potter, author of "The
Kneebone Boy""
"Wickedly funny and mildly disturbing...Whyman's taste for the
bizarre is grislier than most, and a gruesome finale is
particularly unsettling. But it's his choice phrasing (the family's
victims are "free range") and spot-on comedic delivery, seen
especially in 12-year-old Ivan's pointed practical jokes, that make
the book so digestible." --"Publishers Weekly"
"I devoured (there's no other way to put it) "The Savages." And
they were delicious! Seriously. I absolutely loved the book. It was
funny and fascinating, occasionally repulsive, and beautifully
written. Also quite thought-provoking, since I have an uneasy
relationship with meat-eating, yet can't quite commit to
vegetarianism. What I especially loved is how caring and tender the
Savage family was. I'll be on the lookout for more of Matt Whyman's
writing from here on in. I'm a fan!" --Ellen Potter, author of "The
Kneebone Boy"
"I devoured (there's no other way to put it) "The Savages". And
they were delicious! Seriously. I absolutely loved the book. It was
funny and fascinating, occasionally repulsive, and beautifully
written. Also quite thought-provoking, since I have an uneasy
relationship with meat-eating, yet can't quite commit to
vegetarianism. What I especially loved is how caring and tender the
Savage family was. I'll be on the lookout for more of Matt Whyman's
writing from here on in. I'm a fan!" --Ellen Potter, author of "The
Kneebone Boy"
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