Preston seems to want readers to think that the Archibalds are merely eccentric when all his evidence points to the fact that these people are disturbed and that Jennie is filling some bizarre need in the family. Much more insightful when it comes to animals than humans, Preston hasn't worked out the Archibalds' motivations, and this omission is a serious flaw of the novel. But then Jennie hits puberty, her hormones kick in, and, predictably, she becomes uncontrollable the fate of this chimp who thinks she's human is not a pretty one. A neighbor who is a Christian minister takes it upon himself to bring Jennie to Jesus, and a primate researcher teaches her sign language. The Archibalds raise Jennie as a human child, dressing her in diapers and kids' clothes and buying her dolls and toys, and Jennie and Sandy become inseparable best friends. Hugo Archibald goes to Africa to buy chimpanzee skulls and falls in love with a baby chimp, whom he brings home to his wife, Lea, and their young children, Sandy and Sarah. A curator at the Boston Museum of Natural History, Dr. Eventually, Jennie goes to a wildlife preserve where she cannot function.Īn anthropologist and his family take a chimpanzee into their home and make more of a fuss over the animal than readers are likely to in a first novel by science writer Preston (Cities of Gold, 1992). Jennie, through her learning of ASL ( American Sign Language), starts to converse and interact with the humans around her. His young son, Sandy, becomes extremely attached to Jennie, but Archibald's daughter, Sarah, resents the chimp.

Hugo Archibald delivers Jennie from her dying mother in the Cameroons and brings her home to his American family.

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