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This tragicomic novel is heartfelt, touching, and delightfully quirky. Youll fall in love with the offbeat cast of characters (both living and dead) and find yourself rooting for them right through the last page.--Good Housekeeping (Book Club pick) A lost young woman returns to small-town New Hampshire under the strangest of circumstances in this one-of-a-kind novel of life, death, and whatever comes after from the acclaimed author of Rabbit Cake. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post It was a source of entertainment at Maple Street Cemetery. Both funny and sad, the kind of story we like best. Natural-born healer Emma Starling once had big plans for her life, but shes lost her way. A medical school dropout, shes come back to small-town Everton, New Hampshire, to care for her father, who is dying from a mysterious brain disease. Clive Starling has been hallucinating small animals, as well as having visions of the ghost of a long-dead naturalist, Ernest Harold Baynes, once known for letting wild animals live in his house. This ghost has been giving Clive some ideas on how to spend his final days. Emma arrives home knowing she must face her dads illness, her moms judgment, and her younger brothers recent stint in rehab, but shes unprepared to find that her former best friend from high school is missing, with no one bothering to look for her. The police say they dont spend much time looking for drug addicts. Emmas dad is the only one convinced the young woman might still be alive, and Emma is hopeful he could be right. Someone should look for her, at least. Emma isnt really trying to be a hero, but somehow she and her father bring about just the kind of miracle the town needs. Set against the backdrop of a small town in the throes of a very real opioid crisis, Unlikely Animals is a tragicomic novel about familial expectations, imperfect friendships, and the possibility of resurrecting that which had been thought irrevocably lost.Annie Hartnett is the author of Rabbit Cake, which was listed as one of Kirkus Reviewss Best Books of 2017 and a finalist for the New England Book Award. She has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Sewanee Writers Conference, and the Associates of the Boston Public Library. She studied philosophy at Hamilton College, has an MA from Middlebury College, and an MFA from the University of Alabama. When she began writing Unlikely Animals, she was living in the groundskeepers house in a cemetery. She now lives in a small town in Massachusetts with her husband, daughter, and darling border collie, Mr. Willie Nelson.Book specifications:Dimensions: 203 x 132Author: Annie HartnettCover type: PaperbackPublishing Year: 2023Publishing Month: 2Pages: 384Language: EnglishPublisher: Ballantine BooksWeight: 290 g
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