Product Description: "A first novel of considerable maturity: powerful, original, cunningly constructed, and timely." ―Julian Barnes, author of The Sense of an EndingAfter years alone in a cell, an aging prisoner is released without explanation, expelled into a great city now utterly unfamiliar to him...read more

Allele Island is a beachcomber's paradise for a charming little primate named Eena Beena, who tends her stretch of beach--and the hapless castaways who wash up there--as if it were her own private garden. Everything changes when a deranged ape named Prospero arrives with plans to kidnap the island's queen for an evil experiment that threatens the world. A novel of adventure, word play, and high literary nonsense.

Trying to forget her violent childhood with the help of her grandparents when her stepfather and abusive mother reappear, Chloe goes on the run, accompanied by her grandparents' pregnant Mexican maid.