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The Human Zoo

Sabina Murray
Chapters (37)
  1. THE HUMAN ZOO
  2. Also by Sabina Murray
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Epigraph
  7. Part I
  8. I
  9. II
  10. III
  11. IV
  12. V
  13. VI
  14. VII
  15. VIII
  16. IX
  17. X
  18. XI
  19. XII
  20. XIII
  21. XIV
  22. XV
  23. XVI
  24. XVII
  25. XVIII
  26. Part II
  27. I
  28. II
  29. III
  30. IV
  31. V
  32. VI
  33. VII
  34. VIII
  35. IX
  36. Acknowledgments
  37. Back Cover

THE HUMAN ZOO

THE HUMAN ZOO

Also by Sabina Murray

Also by Sabina Murray

Valiant Gentlemen

Tales of the New World

Forgery

A Carnivore’s Inquiry

The Caprices

Slow Burn

Title Page

THE HUMAN ZOO

A NOVEL

SABINA MURRAY

Grove Press

New York

Copyright

Copyright © 2021 by Sabina Murray

Jacket design by Anamaria Morris

Jacket painting, La Guapa, by Ronald Ventura

Photograph courtesy of Leon Gallery

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Published simultaneously in Canada

Printed in the United States of America

First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition: August 2021

This book was set in 12-point Goudy by Alpha Design & Composition in Pittsfield, NH.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data is available for this title.

ISBN 978-0-8021-5750-8

eISBN 978-0-8021-5752-2

Grove Press

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Dedication

For R. Zamora Linmark

Epigraph

I fain would be an Igorrote,

Without a stitch of clothes,

And dwell up the sandy beach

Where the cooling sea-breeze blows.

Iron-jointed, supple-sinewed,

I would walk—would almost fly,

Catch the stray dog by the hair,

And work him into pie.

There I’d live the life idyllic,

Caring naught for Summer suns,

Caring naught for scorching cities,

Where the perspiration runs.

Dressed alone in my complexion,

With a palm-leaf fan, perchance,

I would rather be a savage

Than a magnate wearing “pants.”

New York Morning Telegraph,

July 19, 1905

Part I

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