New Release Notes 4/12/22: Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett

Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett

“I devoured Annie Hartnett’s Unlikely Animals. She’s created a beautiful menagerie set inside a troubled household and their small New Hampshire town; a delightful mess of tenderness, grief, and despair, but most important, hope.”—Kristen Arnett, New York Times bestselling author of Mostly Dead Things and With Teeth

A daughter returns to a small town to take care of her ailing father. There are also ghosts. There is also an opioid epidemic and a missing person. There are tears, fear, and laughter. This book defies genre, imbuing magical realism with tender prose and gorgeous character profiles that make you read faster and faster, yet not wishing for it to end. Hartnett balances heavy topics with playfulness and wit that makes the load of the story never too much to bear. A beautiful book for a beautiful spring day.