THE LAST ANIMAL was awarded the National Book Foundation’s Science + Literature Prize for 2025. The committee’s citation reads: “With tremendous skill, Ramona Ausubel shows how a newly-single mother and her two teenage daughters survive while trying to help save the planet. Sharp and delightful, the novel explores how science works—and doesn’t work—and the sexism so pervasive that even those not working in the field understand the need to navigate its imposed limitations. THE LAST ANIMAL is a tour de force that takes readers around the world and asks if we should resurrect those we’ve lost, how to move on without them, and to which part of this globe we belong.” The award consists of a $10,000 prize, and the winners will be celebrated at a ceremony in March. THE LAST ANIMAL was published by Riverhead on April 18, 2023.