Of Cattle and Men by Ana Paula Maia #literature Offering parents the clarity they

Offering parents the clarity they need

Sitting low in the water

the Sun and Moon and things that fly

Holland warns that we in the West have become complacent

Of Cattle and Men by Ana Paula Maia #literature Offering parents the clarity theyBy the International Booker Prize Longlisted Author of On Earth As It Is BeneathAnimals go mad and men die (accidentally and not) at a slaughterhouse in an impoverished, isolated corner of Brazil. In a landscape worthy of Cormac McCarthy, the river runs septic with blood. Edgar Wilson makes the sign of the cross on the forehead of a cow, then stuns it with a mallet. He does this over and over again, as the stun operator at Senhor Milos slaughterhouse: