Tongue Tied
The Animals in That Country
By Laura Jean McKay
20 Nov, 2025
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Laura Jean McKay’s 2020 Arthur C. Clarke Award winning The Animals in That Country is a stand-alone science fiction novel.
Outback wildlife-park guide Jean has a straightforward life. She guides tourists around the park, helps with the animals, dotes on her granddaughter Kimberly, and coexists awkwardly with her boss Angela, who is also Kimberly’s single mother.
Enter a novel super flu, zoanthropathy.