Cages - by Sylvia Torti (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"CAGES is a haunting and revealing novel that concerns the ethics and motives of scientific inquiry in which two neurologists are engaged in divergent quests: one to locate the source of memory and the other to study speech patterns in humans by analyzing and manipulating bird vocalization. Both men use experiments on live songbirds in a laboratory on a university campus, and both become romantically intertwined with a woman lab assistant who takes issue with their methods, and argues for the "agency" of all living things. Overshadowing this trio are significant figures from their individual pasts--a distant mother, a former girlfriend, a best friend and ornithological expert who dies tragically while conducting field research in the Amazon, and a mentor turned lover and nemesis. This is a subtly layered novel rich in natural description and sense of place that grapples with serious philosophical and moral themes, peopled by characters who must confront the emotional truths in their lives in order to be released from their own, individual cages"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Two neurologists are engaged in divergent quests: one to locate the source of memory and the other to study speech patterns in humans by analyzing and manipulating bird vocalization. Both men use experiments on live songbirds in a laboratory on a university campus, and both become romantically intertwined with a woman lab assistant who takes issue with their methods. Overshadowing this trio are significant figures from their individual pasts--a distant mother, a former girlfriend, a best friend and ornithological expert who dies tragically while conducting field research in the Amazon, and a mentor turned lover and nemesis. This is a subtly layered novel rich in natural description and sense of place that grapples with serious philosophical and moral themes, peopled by characters who must confront the emotional truths in their lives in order to be released from their own, individual cages.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>Cages </i>by Sylvia Torti named as finalist for <b>15 byte book award</b>.<br><br>"Torti's writing offers rich enjoyment for birders and photographers who hang around birders. Scientists will get a kick out of a story about doing science that doesn't pull many punches for the nonscientist and digs into thorny ethical territory." --Michael Sedano, labloga.blogspot.com<br><br>"At its heart, <i>Cages</i> is a story about humans and how they communicate, but it also contains a great deal of information about how birds communicate as the author details her characters' research." --Steve Larson, <i>Deseret News</i><br><br>"A masterful book in which curiosity and cruelty twine tight. In this exquisitely researched work of fiction, Torti explores sex and science, memory and forgetting, and how, in laboratory research on living organisms, we often destroy what we love." --Sy Montgomery, author, <i>The Soul of an Octopus</i>, National Book Award Finalist<br><br>"In this quietly moving second novel, Torti brings together three unmoored characters seeking meaning through science...the migration of these characters toward resolution will reward readers willing to be swept along." --<i>Publishers Weekly</i><br><br>"Sylvia Torti's<i> Cages</i> is a thought-provoking novel about the complexity of birdsong and how it parallels human communication, related with an ardent narrative voice and a studious tone." --Monica Carter, <i>Foreword Reviews</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Sylvia Torti </b>is the author of<i> The Scorpion's Tail</i>, winner of the Miguel Marmol Award for first fiction by an American of Latino descent. She holds a Ph.D. in biology and is Research Assistant Professor in biology as well as current Dean of the Honors College at the University of Utah.
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