Where Cows Dance

by Bonnie Jae Dane

Mavis Amelia Mann, a think tank consultant, and her cow Lottie Jean live a harmonious life in a village on the edge of the Atlantic seacoast. They ease through the day with affection for each other and the world at large, especially a gentleman farmer named Cyrus Gant who finds them both charming additions to his spare but rich life. Unfortunately, things take a downward turn when a new neighbor Kent Abernathy moves in next door and objects to livestock grazing within town limits. He stops at nothing to rid his line of vision of what he considers a ‘bovine eyesore’.
Mavis hires two highly trained, former military security personnel, lesbians Dolores and Margaret, to handle a situation that eventually becomes life threatening to Lottie and a trauma to Mavis, who finds herself in jail for assaulting her neighbor after he throws stones at Lottie when she strolls across his yard on her way to visit her cow girlfriends living at Cyrus’ farm.
Interwoven with the daily tribulations are Mavis’ clients in need of philosophical answers to problems ranging from an academic searching for a higher truth; a meeting going awry when an aged professor tries to make his point by exposing himself with senile fortitude; and a preacher wanting to know the meaning of forgiveness so he can win back his wife. These charming realities in Where Cows Dance stoke the need for compassion when trying to navigate a world often fraught with varying perspectives not always aligned with the Real reality where violence wanes, cows dance, and tomorrow is a useless word.

274 pages, Paperback

Published April 18, 2023

About the author

Bonnie Jae Dane is most known for her memoir The Book of Husbands and her comic novels. Cellist, Yo-Yo Ma describes her writing as 'Mellifluous'.