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In Our Inner Ape (2005), the primatologist Frans de Waal wondered what might have happened had we learned about bonobos before chimpanzees. Perhaps, he suggested, our theories of human evolution “might not revolve as much around violence, warfare and male dominance, but rather...

— The Times Literary Suplement, Jun 16 2018

Science fiction is as broad a church as any other genre, from full-on laser-zapping space operas to subtle literary speculative tales only slightly removed from modern reality. This week we have two books that fall into the latter category, books that have taken recent advances...

— The Big Issue, Jun 3 2018

Schulman’s wonderful, intricate novel (following Three Weeks in December) is set in the palpably near future. When the superstar of the biological research world, 33-year-old Frankie Burke, joins the team at an ape foundation in the Midwest, she thinks things are finally falling...

— Publishers Weekly, Apr 23 2018

Ms Schulman’s finest novel yet is an examination of sexual relations, the “careful theatre” of civilisation, and humanity’s responsibilities in a rapidly changing world. It is both an edifying read and an exhilarating one.

— The Economist, Apr 19 2018

a deeply unusual, psychologically astute novel about technology and survival, sex and love. [...] Beguiling, irreverent, and full of heart

— Kirkus Review, Feb 15 2018

Near-future-set tale about an evolutionary scientist who hopes to study a colony of Bonobo apes in order to prove her revolutionary feminist theory of reproduction. But a sudden change in the weather changes everything.

— The Bookseller, Jan 8 2018

As a child, Audrey Schulman saw herself living the writer’s life – blissfully sitting in cafes, observing interesting conversations, not having to deal with bosses – so naturally, she figured it would be a good idea to get started as early as possible. Her first novel...

— Nov 19 2012

Schulman’s fourth novel tells the parallel stories, separated by more than a century, of two outcast Americans setting off into Africa. Jeremy, a nineteenth-century engineer whose homosexuality has estranged him from his family and friends in Maine, takes a job building a railroad...

— The New Yorker, Mar 6 2012

Stories of American outsiders in Africa 100 years apart — a gay engineer and an ethnobotanist with Asperger’s syndrome — alternate in this fresh and complex novel.

— Feb 17 2012

Max Tombay, one of the two central characters in Audrey Schulman’s new novel, is many things: an ethnobotanist; a mixed-race woman; a native of Bangor, Me. Above all else, though, Max is identified by her sense-perception of the world. She’s an “Aspie.” That is, she...

— Feb 12 2012

Set in Africa, Audrey Schulman’s gripping new novel, “Three Weeks in December,’’ tells the alternating stories of two people, a century apart, locked in a struggle not just with the wildness that surrounds them, but that lies within them. It is the last month of...

— Feb 8 2012

Book Review: Three Weeks in December Three Weeks in December by Audrey Schulman (Europa, $16 paperback, 9781609450649, January 31, 2012) In Audrey Schulman's (The Cage) ingeniously plotted novel, we read two stories, happening 100 apart, that come together in a most...

— Jan 23 2012

Deftly weaving the forays of two individuals, separated by a century, into the unknown heart of Africa, Schulman’s fourth novel, her first in 11 years, tracks an engineer named Jeremy, who in 1889 accepts a contract to supervise the construction of a bridge in British-controlled...

— Dec 19 2011

Three Weeks in December by Audrey Schulman By Dennis Haritou Schulman read over 70 books as a background to distill into Three Weeks in December. There’s a fine selected bibliography at the end of the book. That’s rare for a novel! She...

— Nov 11 2011