Lydia takes an interest in Bruno after she overhears him pronounce his own name. The one he falls for is Lydia Littlemore, an attractive cognitive psychologist with a specialty in chimp language acquisition. “I have no desire to have sex with other chimps.” Instead, he wants humans. “I never felt like I quite belonged to the same species as my mother,” he says. (Humbert Humbert is in the cell next door.) Evolution is Bruno’s story in his own words.īruno spends his early years with the chimps in Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo, but he immediately knows he’s an outsider. At age 25, he is doing time for a murder conviction at one of those prisons where the inmates drink wine and dictate their memoirs. Our narrator, Bruno, is the first chimp in history to learn fully human language. In Benjamin Hale’s debut novel, The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore, these objections are all overturned.
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