Description
I’ve never eaten a person but today I might . . . In the Hollywood hills, a mountain lion is struggling to survive. Isolated and afraid in a place devastated by drought, the lion’s endless hunger begins to get to them. As the land around them continues to decay, they begin to fantasize about killing the hikers who pass them by day after day. As they protect the precarious welfare of a nearby homeless encampment from their thicket, they confront a carousel of temptations and threats, taking us on a tour that spans the city’s cruel inequalities to the toll of climate grief, all while grappling with the complexities of their own gender identity and memories of a vicious, absent father. Open Throat is a stinging, moving and intimate look at the impact the climate crisis has on animals and our environment. There are moving and laugh-out-loud moments, but ultimately this poignant narrative voice forces us to reckon with our dying planet.