Her father, Clive, who's dying from a mysterious brain disease, is having hallucinations of animals while being haunted by the ghost of (real-life) local naturalist Ernest Harold Baynes. Never a truer word was spoken than when the ghostly inhabitants of the Maple Street cemetery in Everton, New Hampshire, who are the choruslike narrators of this novel, rationalize that “a good story doesn’t always follow an arrow.” In what begins as a slow-paced, meandering tale, Emma Starling, a natural healer and former golden girl of small-town Everton, drops out of medical school and moves back in with her parents. 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.An absurdist, laugh-out-loud family drama about intergenerational healing. Emma isn’t really trying to be a hero–but somehow she and her father set in motion just the kind of miracle the town needs. Emma’s dad is the only one convinced the young woman might still be alive, and Emma is hopeful he could be right. The police say they don’t spend much time looking for drug addicts. Emma arrives home knowing she must face her dad’s illness, her mom’s judgement, and her younger brother’s recent stint in rehab, but she’s unprepared to find that her former best friend from high school is missing, with no one bothering to look for her. This ghost has been giving Clive some ideas on how to spend his final days. Clive Starling has been hallucinating small animals, as well as visions of the ghost of a long-dead naturalist, Ernest Harold Baynes, once known for letting wild animals live in his house. A med school dropout, she’s come back to small-town Everton, New Hampshire to care for her father, dying from a mysterious brain disease. Natural-born healer Emma Starling once had big plans for her life, but she’s lost her way. Both funny and sad, the kind of story we like best. It was a source of entertainment at Maple Street Cemetery. You can read this before Unlikely Animals PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.Ī 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. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Unlikely Animals written by Annie Hartnett which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett

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