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Bad Animals: A Novel
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Bad Animals more than capably follows the success of The Sweet Relief of Missing Children with an exploration of appropriation that will resonate with the zeitgeist around the subject. Told in gripping prose with a razor-sharp edge, it's sure to land with fans of Eileen and Nightbitch.
“[A] sharp-witted, ravishing novel.” —Claire Luchette, New York Times Book Review A sexy, propulsive novel that confronts the limits of empathy and the perils of appropriation through the eyes of a disgraced small-town librarian.
Now that her brilliant botanist daughter is off at college, buttoned-up Maeve Cosgrove loves her job at a quiet Maine public library more than anything. But when a teenager accuses Maeve—Maeve!—of spying on her romantic escapades in the mezzanine bathroom, she winds...