Overview
āJuicyā¦simmers with tension as secrets explode out into the open.ā āThe Washington Post * āSo alluringā¦I raced happily through the pages.ā āThe New York Times Book Review * āCompulsively readable.ā āVogue * āAn absolutely captivating read.ā āElin Hilderbrand
From the author of the bestselling memoir Wild Game comes a riveting novel about Cape Cod, complicated families, and long-buried secrets.
Ken and Abby Gardner lost their mother when they were small and they have been haunted by her absence ever since. Their father, Adam, a brilliant oceanographer, raised them mostly on his own in his remote home on Cape Cod, where the attachment between Ken and Abby deepened into something complicatedāand as adults their relationship is strained. Now, years later, the siblingsā lives are still deeply entwined. Ken is a successful businessman with political ambitions and a picture-perfect family and Abby is a talented visual artist who depends on her brotherās goodwill, in part because he owns the studio where she lives and works.
As the novel opens, Adam is approaching his seventieth birthday, staring down his mortality and fading relevance. He has always managed his bipolar disorder with medication, but heās determined to make one last scientific breakthrough and so he has secretly stopped taking his pills, which he knows will infuriate his children. Meanwhile, Abby and Ken are both harboring secrets of their own, and there is a new person on the periphery of the familyāSteph, who doesnāt make her connection known. As Adam grows more attuned to the frequencies of the deep sea and less so to the people around him, Ken and Abby each plan the elaborate gifts they will present to their father on his birthday, jostling for primacy in this small family unit.
Set in the fraught summer of 2016, Little Monsters is a āsmart, page-flipping novelā¦[with] shades of Successionā (The Boston Globe) from a writer who knows Cape Cod inside and outāits Edenic lushness and its snakes.
This book title, Little Monsters, ISBN: 9781982198114, by Adrienne Brodeur, published by Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster (May 7, 2024) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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