Unspoken

by Angela Hunt

Paper Book, 2005

Status

Available

Call number

F HUN

Collection

Fiction

Call number

F HUN

Genres

Christian Fiction

All Topics

Fiction

Publication

Westbow

Description

A love unlike any other...a story of sacrifice and the unspoken connections that bring us together. For the last eight years, Glee Granger has centered her life around Sema--they live together, play together, eat together, and "talk" together. Though Sema isn't the first gorilla to use sign language, Glee has pushed their interaction to breakthrough levels. Technically, however, Sema isn't hers. She belongs to the zoo where she was born--and the zoo wants its gorilla back. Glee's only option for continuing her work is to join the zoo staff. At first reluctant, Glee begins to see real possibilites in their new arrangement...until the unthinkable happens. One event overturns everything Glee thought she knew about humans and animals, the seen and the unseen, the spoken...and the unspoken. She taught a gorilla to talk. Now can Glee learn to listen?… (more)

Subjects

Animal welfare Fiction

Christian fiction

Gorilla Fiction

Human-animal communication Fiction

User reviews

LibraryThing member debs4jc

Hunt focuses on the ability of some apes to communicate in sign language in this novel about a researcher named Glee and her signing lowland gorilla named Sema. Glee has raised Sema since the gorilla’s birth, so she is devastated when the zoo that Sema belongs to wants to take her back. Glee

hates putting her back in the zoo but soon falls in love with Sema's new gorilla companions and sees the advantages of having Sema in a social group. That is until Sema's life is threatened in an accident and Sema starts signing stuff about a "shiny man" and "God". Is Sema suffering from brain damage or hallucinations? Or are her animal senses capable of seeing things beyond the physical realm, things of a spiritual nature? Hunt has created a memorable character in Sema, one that causes the reader to think about God’s relationship with animals and how He may use and even communicate through them. Like all of these books, it celebrates the gift that animals can be in people’s lives.

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LibraryThing member HeatherLINC

This was an interesting book about animal communication, but it was too sentimental for my liking. While Sema, the eight-year-old gorilla, was a sweetie, her caretaker, Glee, was arrogant and self-centred, and quite unlikeable. I think the premise was fascinating, but the author could have done a

better job with the writing.

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