Bray's surreal humor may surprise fans of her historical fantasies about Gemma Doyle, as she trains her satirical eye on modern education, American materialism and religious cults (the smoothie-drinking members of the Church of Everlasting Satisfaction and Snack 'N' Bowl). The narrator, sixteen-year-old Cameron, states that the best day of his life occurred when he was five years old and had a brush. Either way, what readers have is an absurdist comedy in which Cameron, Gonzo (a neurotic dwarf) and Balder (a Norse god cursed to appear as a yard gnome) go on a quixotic road trip during which they learn about string theory, wormholes and true love en route to Disney World. Going Bovine is a surreal young adult novel written by Libba Bray and published in 2009. In her novel Going Bovine (2009), Libba Bray uses a darkly comic tone to tell the story of an isolated, unmotivated teenage boy who learns how to live only after being diagnosed with a fatal disease. Unfortunately, he has little time to live at all. What takes place after he is hospitalized is either that a gorgeous angel persuades him to search for a cure that will also save the world, or that he has a vivid hallucination brought on by the disease. As Going Bovine begins, sixteen-year-old Cameron Smith wants nothing more than to make it through life with the least possible effort. Then something happens to make him the focus of his family's attention: he contracts mad cow disease.
Cameron Smith, 16, is slumming through high school, overshadowed by a sister “pre-majoring in perfection,” while working (ineptly) at the Buddha Burger.
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