{"id":49947,"date":"2022-10-30T11:12:53","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T15:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=49947"},"modified":"2022-10-28T11:38:24","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T15:38:24","slug":"unlikely-animals-by-annie-hartnett-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/unlikely-animals-by-annie-hartnett-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"*STARRED REVIEW<\/strong>
\nOpinionated, peanut gallery-esque ghosts soothsay from Maple Street Cemetery in Evanston, New Hampshire. Former professor Clive\u2019s feline hallucinations had him permanently removed from his classroom in the middle of a term; these days, Clive spends most of this time with (dead) Ernest Harold Baynes (the real-life Dr. Doolittle!) and searching for his daughter\u2019s missing childhood best friend.<\/p>\n

Clive\u2019s beleaguered wife Ingrid has had enough of his shenanigans \u2013 never mind his affair \u2013 including his mysterious dying. Their unemployed son, Auggie, is trying to avoid going to rehab again by staving off his cravings with brand-name Corn Pops. And into this fray returns Emma, once the town\u2019s golden girl, who got out to California but who didn\u2019t exactly make it to medical school so she\u2019s gonna have to confess her deceits \u2013 including that she can\u2019t help Clive because she\u2019s lost her healing touch.<\/p>\n

Despite all the dysfunction, versatile Mark Bramhall will make readers believe every word of Hartnett\u2019s goofy, tragic, funny, sobering latest.<\/p>\n

Kirby Heyborne interrupts throughout with short excerpts from The Collected Writings of Ernest Harold Baynes<\/em>, although his perpetually youthful voice seems an odd choice. Bramhall nevertheless compensates expertly, guaranteeing a haunted wild ride of poignant glee.<\/p>\n

Harnett\u2019s ending author\u2019s note \u2013 Bramhall, of course, gets her jaunty tone exactly right \u2013 about her novel\u2019s captivatingly convoluted provenance adds further illuminating delight.<\/p>\n

Review<\/strong>: “Media,” Booklist<\/em>, September 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n

Published<\/strong>: 2022<\/p>\n

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