Of Flesh and Tears - Paperback

by L. M. Rapp (Author), Luke Owain Boult (Translator)

Of Flesh And Tears is a genre-bending psychological novel about a woman whose fragile mental health is thrown into turmoil by the aggression of man and beast.

Following a painful divorce and a stint in a psychiatric hospital, Claire leaves Paris to take over the family farm. With neither support nor experience, she realizes that her fresh start won't be as easy as she'd anticipated.

She searches for meager comfort in Lucien, a vegan activist, who entrusts her with chickens seized from an animal testing research center for her to hide. He even persuades her to participate in his militant group's radical and dangerous activities. Claire's already fragile equilibrium is thrown into turmoil by the aggression of man and of beast. She soon discovers these chickens might be dangerous, threatening any animal and human who gets too close...