THE BOOK FAIR

“Unsaid,” is a jewel of a novel for anyone who loves animals, or feels concern for animal welfare.  Abramson, an attorney in New York, works on legal issues concerning animals.  The Abramson’s live their lives in parallel to the novel; both share a deep love and respect for animals, along with the philosophy that animals contribute  to the lives of their human companions, and thus make humans, better people.  The story centers on animal experimentation, morals and justice.

The novel speaks volumes for non-humans who though, cannot talk, communicate in other ways.  It is incumbent upon humans to seek out the differences of communication and not dismiss communicative differences out of hand.  Laced with universal truths, sensitive, intelligent and beautifully written, the novel brings forth loving, loveable non-human characters, like Cindy, the chimp, and Skippy, the pup.  The novel offers beautiful phrases of understatements such as, “communication not need be spoken, but needs only to have meaning.”  “…animals were put here to help us redeem ourselves” and another, that “fear only brings paralysis, which closes one off to both good and bad.