Unlikely animals: a novel

0

0

Hartnett, Annie

Hartnett, Annie

Cary Regional
Duraleigh Road Community
Southeast Regional

Adult Fiction

Cary Regional - Adult Fiction
Duraleigh Road - Adult Fiction
Morrisville Community - Adult Fiction
North Regional - Adult Fiction
Oberlin Regional - Adult Fiction
Southeast Regional - Adult Fiction
Wake Forest Community - Adult Fiction

"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. The Starlings live in Everton, an ordinary enough New Hampshire town. It's notable only for Corbin Park, an enormous hunting park, and for Maple Street Cemetery-home to many former residents of Everton. There's also the town legend that Emma Starling was born with healing hands. But Emma has never found the right use for her healing abilities, and they've been on the fritz ever since her childhood best friend, Crystal, fell prey to addiction and disappeared. No one went looking for her; the police don't spend much time looking for drug addicts. Now Emma has come back to Everton to see her dying father, the only person who has kept up the search for Crystal. Ever since his recent diagnosis with a rare brain disease, Clive Sterling has been seeing ghosts, including Ernest Harold Baynes, the long-dead naturalist who worked in Corbin Park, and who seems to have some unfinished business in Everton. The residents of Maple Street have their own agenda, too-they'd like to see Emma live up to her potential as a miracle worker and cure her father. Emma's not exactly up for the challenge, though. Recently expelled from medical school, she takes a job as a substitute fifth-grade teacher to get back on her feet and stay close to home. As her father's condition worsens, it's all Emma can do to stay afloat. She isn't trying to be a hero-just a passable guardian to her father and her fifth-graders-but somehow she still sets in motion 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 novel about familial expectations, imperfect friendships, and the possibility of resurrecting that which had been thought irrevocably lost"--

Book

Books

4e78dc19-bda8-d69b-f7b3-320280e122df

9780593160220

2025-07-03T09:13:33.717Z

-1

Fiction

Fiction

HARTNETT

Wake County Public Libraries

Cary Regional
Duraleigh Road Community
Morrisville Community
North Regional
Oberlin Regional
Southeast Regional
Wake Forest Community

9780593160220

2022

Ballantine Books

grouped_work

Brain -- Diseases -- Patients -- Fiction
City and town life -- Fiction
Domestic fiction
Dysfunctional families -- Fiction
Hallucinations and illusions -- Fiction
Homecoming -- Fiction
Missing persons -- Fiction
New Hampshire -- Fiction
Psychological fiction
Young women -- Fiction

Unlikely animals : a novel

Unlikely animals : a novel / Annie Hartnett

Unlikely animals

a novel

Brain
City and town life
Diseases
Dysfunctional families
Hallucinations and illusions
Homecoming
Missing persons
Patients
Young women