'A meaty comedy with a bleeding heart, highly recommended for all animals who read'
Joshua Cohen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Netanyahus

Herschel Caine is a soon-to-be master of the universe. His hedge fund, built on the miracle of machine learning, is inches away from systematically extracting obscene profits from the market.

But on the night of 12 May, at his elegant Brooklyn townhouse, he has something else on his mind - the dinner party he and his wife have devised to woo their new A-list neighbours. When the evening fizzles, Herschel indulges in a devilish prank that goes horrifically awry, plunging him into a tailspin of guilt and regret. As his tightly constructed world starts to unravel, he clings to the moral clarity he finds in the last place he'd expect: a sudden connection with a neighbourhood dog.

In The Vegan, Andrew Lipstein challenges our notions of virtue with a brilliant tale of guilt, greed, and how far we'll go to be good.

"Skewers capitalism, consumerism, and milquetoast morality in its pointed teeth" - Elle

"Exquisite . . . perfectly pitched between farce and poignancy" - i

"One of my favourite books . . . poignant, but also really funny and lightly written . . . grapples with ethical questions in a really sensitive way" - Financial Times

"A pig in a blanket of irony, subversion and humour" - New York Times

"Propulsive" - Los Angeles Times

"At once bracingly contemporary and deeply strange . . . The Vegan channels the queasy paranoia of an era when the fear of human extinction via machine learning can make even masters of the universe feel like trapped animals" - Time

"A propulsive, wild ride" - Vanity Fair

"A topsy-turvy investigation of that most disorienting question: What does it mean to be a good person?" - Kirkus Reviews