Unlikely Animals Annie Hartnett by Annie Hartnett 9780593160220, 9780593160237, 0593160223, 0593160231 instant download after payment.

Natural-born healer Emma Starling once had big plans for her life, but she's lost her way. 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. 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. This ghost has been giving Clive some ideas on how to spend his final days.

Emma arrives home knowing she must face her dad's illness, her mom's judgement, & 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. The police say they don't spend much time looking for drug addicts. Emma's dad is the only one convinced the young woman might still be alive, & Emma is hopeful he could be right. Someone should look for her, at least. Emma isn't really trying to be a hero—but somehow she & her father set 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 tragicomic novel about familial expectations, imperfect friendships, & the possibility of resurrecting that which had been thought irrevocably lost.

“This tragicomic novel is heartfelt, touching, & delightfully quirky. You’ll fall in love with the offbeat cast of characters (both living & dead) & find yourself rooting for them right through the last page.”—Good Housekeeping (Book Club pick)

Annie Hartnett was the 2013-2014 winner of the Writer in Residence Fellowship for the Associates of the Boston Public Library..