Unlikely Animals

A wondrous and wonderful story filled with unforgettable characters, both living and dead … an instant classic * Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times bestselling author of the Southern Reach trilogy *Hartnett’s whimsical storytelling casts a spell * Publishers Weekly *An absurdist, laugh-out-loud family drama about intergenerational healing * Kirkus Reviews *I devoured Annie Hartnett’s Unlikely Animals. She’s created a beautiful menagerie set inside a troubled household and their small New Hampshire town; a delightful mess of tenderness, grief, and despair, but most important, hope * Kristen Arnett, New York Times bestselling author of Mostly Dead Things and With Teeth *Unlikely Animals possesses such tenderness and empathy for a world that wears us down and ruins us, a world that sometimes offers a glimmer of hope, and Hartnett knows how to turn up the brilliance of that light and wield it to do magical things * Kevin Wilson, New York Times bestselling author of Nothing to See Here and The Family Fang *Hartnett masterfully balances a story of deep loss with the perfect amount of hilarity and tenderness * Booklist (starred review) *This is a big novel doing big things. It bears some similarity to Hartnett’s much- loved first novel, Rabbit Cake. … But Unlikely Animals is a broader, brassier, and even more fiercely tender story. In this, her second novel, Hartnett lands an astonishing leap as a storyteller * The Rumpus *Wistfully charming … This unapologetically genre-bending tribute to life and death, and the beautiful weirdness found in both, has potential to spark exceptional book club discussions * Shelf Awareness *Bewitching! * New York Times *[A] a magical, soul-stirring read about family and the ways we put ourselves back together * The Washington Post *Heartfelt, touching and delightfully quirky * Good Housekeeping *A moving novel about family, friendship and loss that manages to be both at times quirkily surreal as well as rooted in the realities of small-town life * Choice *

Annie Hartnett is the author of Rabbit Cake. She has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Associates of the Boston Public Library. She studied philosophy at Hamilton College, has an MA from Middlebury College, and an MFA from the University of Alabama. When she began writing this book, she was living in the groundskeeper’s house in a cemetery. She now lives in Providence, Rhode Island, in an ordinary house with her husband, daughter, and darling border collie, Mr. Willie Nelson.

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