Only the Animals
By Caroline Ely October 27, 2021

Intricate and masterful, strange and heartbreaking, Only the Animals is a great new entry into the multilinear narrative canon.
Intricate and masterful, strange and heartbreaking, Only the Animals is a great new entry into the multilinear narrative canon.
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