Cages

A Novel

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Pub Date 01 May 2017 | Archive Date 15 Oct 2017

Description

In a laboratory perched in the mountains, two neurologists are engaged in a bitter rivalry. Haunted by figures and events from their past, both men experiment on live songbirds in pursuit of divergent aims; one to locate the source of memory, the other to study speech patterns in humans by manipulating a bird’s ability to sing. When a young female assistant arrives and takes issue with their methods, their competition escalates as they vie for her romantic attention while defending their research. However, unlike their feathered captive, she refuses to be caged.

Rich in moral conflict and sense of place, Cages is a story of love and loss, our stewardship of the wild, and the power of memory to create or erase human reality.

In a laboratory perched in the mountains, two neurologists are engaged in a bitter rivalry. Haunted by figures and events from their past, both men experiment on live songbirds in pursuit of...


Advance Praise

Sylvia Torti’s Cages is a thought-provoking novel about the complexity of birdsong and how it parallels human communication, related with an ardent narrative voice and a studious tone. - Foreword Reviews


In this quietly moving second novel, Torti brings together three unmoored characters seeking meaning through science...the migration of these characters toward resolution will reward readers willing to be swept along. - Publishers Weekly


“This is a masterful book.  Riveting and heartbreaking, CAGES is a tale in which  curiosity and cruelty twine tight. In this exquisitely researched work of fiction, Sylvia Torti explores sex and science, memory and forgetting, and how, in laboratory research on living organisms, we often destroy what we love.”--Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an Octopus, finalist for The National Book Award.

Sylvia Torti’s Cages is a thought-provoking novel about the complexity of birdsong and how it parallels human communication, related with an ardent narrative voice and a studious tone. - Foreword...


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