My debut novel Cattle was published in 2022.
Cattle is available to purchase as an ebook here.
Praise for Cattle, by Joseph Earp:
“Not sure how such a bleak subject can be made so compelling. Perhaps the nuanced look at the darkness and light in all of us is what I enjoyed. Thank you Joseph Earp … one of the best new authors I’ve stumbled across in years.”
“Cattle, by Joseph Earp, starts with sad and funny insights into a women’s life at work and within her community as she tries to find purpose and connection. When she decides to move back to the property she grew up on the mystery of her life, intentions and sense of self grows. Cattle slowly descends into almost absurd examination of the cruelty of people and modern work forces. I say almost absurd because it is all situated in a story that seems so real and possible. In fact parts of it, I recognise from the world around us but want to believe are not real.”
The blurb for Cattle is as follows:
“The sole carer for her incapacitated husband and the unwilling custodian of a block of land out in the Australian country, Carmelia takes life’s blows with an unquestioning calm. That is, until she discovers that she’s very, very good at her new job.
While her much younger colleagues begin to have breakdowns from the stress of their still-unspecified work, Carmelia learns that she has talents she never before could have guessed at. Aided by her eerie and aggressive boss, a young man named Bill, and by a new friend named Ed, Carmelia rises through the ranks of this new company, taking control of her life in the process.
However, soon her life changes once again, when she stumbles across a video depicting a terrible act of violence, and featuring a face that seems uncomfortably familiar to her.
Cattle is a book about violence, capital, and the things that our modern “post-work” society requires of us.”
Those who want to buy Cattle directly from me can contact me at my email address, available on this page.
Joseph Earp 