One character named Hero is genderqueer, but that's not the main point, they play an important role in the murdering sprees because of their poisoning knowledge. So the alternative history setting is unique and fun in itself, but Gailey really shines in her interesting characters.
Instead of barns there are lakes, and different types of hippos have been bred for different purposes (speed, meat, etc.) Instead of riding in on horses, the villains (who are kind of the heros) and the law enforcement ride in on. It sounds crazy, but that's the alternate history world setting the scene for American Hippo.
It was originally proposed to Congress as a solution for meat production and to also cut down on the water hyacinth that was clogging waterways. The backbone of these two novellas and two short stories ("Winslow's Problem" and "Nine and a Half") is an idea that never happened, but almost happened in the United States - hippopotamus ranching. I kept hearing about the first novella in this collection, River of Teeth, last year but just finally got to it in this grouping. American Hippo is the story of their fortunes, their failures, and his revenge.Īt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. To do so, he will gather a crew of the damnedest cons, outlaws, and assassins to ever ride a hippo.
This plan failed to take into account some key facts about hippos: they are savage, they are fast, and their jaws can snap a man in two.īy the 1890s, the vast bayou that was once America's greatest waterway belongs to feral hippos, and Winslow Houndstooth has been contracted to take it back. Years ago, in an America that never was, the United States government introduced herds of hippos to the marshlands of Louisiana to be bred and slaughtered as an alternative meat source. Now readers have the chance to own both novellas in American Hippo, a single, beautiful volume. In 2017 Sarah Gailey made their debut with River of Teeth and Taste of Marrow, two action-packed novellas that introduced readers to an alternate America in which hippos rule the colossal swamp that was once the Mississippi River.
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