The Study of Animal LanguagesBy: Lindsay Stern "An unabashedly smart and affecting portrait of the strains of a marriage." Ayana Mathis, author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie Meet Ivan and Prue: a married couple both experts in language and communication who nevertheless cannot seem to communicate with each other Ivan is a tightly wound philosophy professor whose reverence for logic and order governs not only his academic interests, but also his closest relationships. His wife,