{"product_id":"the-hot-monkey-love-trial-9781621341406","title":"The Hot Monkey Love Trial","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBert Gropes\u003c\/strong\u003e is a reclusive 26 year-old who lives at home with his mother in the farmlands of Woodland, California. He has no money, and he's about to get fired, again, from the job he loves: teaching social studies to middle schoolers. He knows about those problems. What Bert and his mother, \u003cstrong\u003eEugenia Gropes\u003c\/strong\u003e, don't know until it's too late is that before he was even born, someone genetically altered him \u003cem\u003ein vitro, \u003c\/em\u003e along with the course of his natural life. A single gene from a Libidoan monkey--an oversexed great ape native to the Caribbean's Isle Libido--was inserted into Bert when but a wee little bit of biomaterial. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs destiny and history play out, Bert finds trouble of biblical proportions. He's accused of terrible crimes in Tennessee for his role in the death of a thrill seeker who downloads an app developed for sexless farm roosters but that's been repurposed by the real culprit, \u003cstrong\u003eDick Slayde\u003c\/strong\u003e of Internet giant Primal Urge, for human use as the ultimate electronic tonic: \u003cstrong\u003eHot Monkey Love.\u003c\/strong\u003e Making matters worse, Tennessee's favorite son, \u003cstrong\u003eSenator Ray Hoffenworth\u003c\/strong\u003e, comes home to Dayton to be the prosecuting attorney and make an example of Bert. The defense, offered by Bert's celebrity animal rights activist lawyer, \u003cstrong\u003eClarene Eliza Dare\u003c\/strong\u003e, captures the world's attention: Can a defendant with a single nonhuman gene be tried for murder as a \u003cem\u003eperson\u003c\/em\u003e, as that term is understood by our laws, any more than a dog or a cat?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the legal titans clash in court over the consequence of Bert's mixed-up genetic sequence, it's the Scopes Monkey Trial all over again. Except one thing: The story's DNA has been mutated--comically and dramatically recombined with strands harvested from today's news--and twisted into a tale that only the coming age of biotech could dish up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Water Street Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/28\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781621341406\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 420\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.10d","brand":"Lawrence G. Townsend","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52146994806965,"sku":"9781621341406","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_c5866a19-11a1-4368-b66d-5204652028bd.jpg?v=1767678379","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-hot-monkey-love-trial-9781621341406","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}