The Cosmology of the Wider World by Jeffrey Ford is $0.5 on
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Goodreads review by Sarah Pinsker:
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This is a talking animal fable, but one intended for adults, full of sex and drugs and violence. It is tragic and sweet and lovely and funny and sad, and somehow manages to touch on themes of loneliness and creativity and normality as seen through the eyes of a minotaur and his friends. I could have read a hundred pages of Thip the flea's diagnostic declamations on the state of the minotaur's health.
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Belius has led a peaceful if not uneventful existence until now, as far as minotaurs’ lives go. He mostly keeps to his house, avoiding anyone outside of his family. Despite his human parents’ efforts to shield him from the potential hysteria of the townspeople, Belius hears about something beyond his home’s walls, even beyond the town itself—something called the Wider World. He decides to explore this strange place where the possibilities far outnumber those of the mundane real world. Here, Belius has a chance to be the minotaur he has always wanted to be. He is joined by Vashti the owl and Pezimote the tortoise, creatures that provide the philosophical guidance he will need if he is to complete his physical and metaphysical journey.
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