"Ape House" by Sara Gruen

This is a hard one to review. Gruen again captures her characters beautifully, presenting people that seem real. The story is compelling-I had never even heard of bonobos, and their grasp of human speech and ASL was fascinating. However, the book left some storylines unfinished, and had other sections that seemed completely superfluous to the main story. It really seemed like this was a longer book that was truncated too severely, as if the writer was working under a word or page limit. Bottom line: I liked this book, but I could have loved it.