EAN: 9781529153804

LITTLE MONSTERS - ADRIENNE BRODEUR KARTONIERT (TB)

'Smart  funny and beautifully written. Brodeur is a brilliant dissector of family relationships
a lyricist of the natural world  and an astute observer of our inner turmoils' MONICA ALI
'Gorgeous  gripping  I couldn't put it down' RUTH OZEKI 'Beautiful  lyrical and unvarnished 
Adrienne Brodeur's Little Monsters delivers its powerful emotional punches so subtly that they
sneak up on you and leave you floored' MIRANDA COWLEY HELLER  author of THE PAPER PALACE A
riveting novel about Cape Cod  complicated families and long-buried secrets Ken and Abby
Gardner were raised in a remote home on Cape Cod. As adults  their relationship is strained 
but their lives are still deeply intertwined. Ken is a successful businessman with political
ambitions and a picture-perfect family  but when his wife walks in on him in an internet
chatroom  she demands they go to therapy. Abby is a talented artist who depends on her
brother's goodwill  in part because he owns the studio where she lives and works. Their father
Adam  a brilliant oceanographer  raised them as a single parent. As his seventieth birthday
approaches and he begins to stare down his mortality  he comes off his bipolar disorder
medication in order to make one last scienti?c breakthrough  he has secretly stopped taking his
pills  which he knows will infuriate his children. Meanwhile  Abby and Ken are both harbouring
secrets of their own  and there is a new person on the periphery of the family - Steph  who
doesn't make her connection known. Set over one fraught summer  Little Monsters is an absorbing
sharply observed family story by a writer who knows Cape Cod inside and out - its Edenic
lushness and its snakes.

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