Going Bovine

Going Bovine, by Libba Bray
Diane Crayton’s teenage son has his own troubles in Night Vale, what with the constant moody shape-shifting and all. But he’s got nothing on Cameron, the star of Bray’s riotous quest novel. Cameron, a self-diagnosed slacker, suddenly finds himself with a much starker prognosis: he has mad cow disease, and is not much longer for this planet. I know, you’re saying, “That sounds devastating and not at all like my favorite podcast from Strange Town, USA.” But that’s because you don’t know the companions Cameron accumulates on his journey to save himself and the world: a teenage gamer dwarf, a pop-punk angel, and a deified garden gnome. See? Told you.