Gibbons in the Family Tree

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Summary: Wonderful!
Review: Don't miss this sensational book about two small apes (if you want to be really irritating, you can refer to them as monkeys), who came to live with the author, her husband, their children, their two dogs, two guinea pigs, two mongooses, cat and crane (they were also offered a baby elephant, which they refused--God knows why!) in Banbkok. It's a great, great book because it's beautifully written, poignant, and sidesplitting--offering, along the way, wonderful descriptions of things you might never have thought about, such as automobile air conditioning in the l950s. Imagine Dr. Doolittle meeting the von Trapp family if the Von Trapp family hadn't been such a bunch of humorless saps. The book also includes photos, including some of the author, who looks much like M.F.K. Fisher in the great Man Ray photo.