Rosemary Candwell's past has exploded into her present.ĭown-and-out and deteriorating, she drifts from anonymous beds and bars in Providence, to a homeless shelter hidden among the hedge-rowed avenues of Newport, and through the revolving door of service jobs and quick-fix psychiatric care, always grasping for hope, for a solution. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility Flashes of unexpected humor light up the darkness, and the arc of her novel is deeply moving.' Denelle's prose is a marvel of precision. 'An extraordinary debut from a wildly talented author. Set against the backdrop of a small town in the throes of a very real opioid crisis, Unlikely Animals is a tragicomic novel about familial expectations, imperfect friendships, and the possibility of resurrecting that which had been thought irrevocably lost.Savoy Bookshop & Café presents an author talk with Courtney Denelle in conversation with Annie Hartnett for the new book, It's Not Nothing. Emma isn't really trying to be a hero, but somehow she and her father bring about just the kind of miracle the town needs. Emma's dad is the only one convinced the young woman might still be alive, and Emma is hopeful he could be right.

The police say they don't spend much time looking for drug addicts. Emma arrives home knowing she must face her dad's illness, her mom's judgment, and her younger brother's recent stint in rehab, but she's unprepared to find that her former best friend from high school is missing, with no one bothering to look for her. This ghost has been giving Clive some ideas on how to spend his final days. Clive Starling has been hallucinating small animals, as well as having visions of the ghost of a long-dead naturalist, Ernest Harold Baynes, once known for letting wild animals live in his house. A medical school dropout, she's come back to small-town Everton, New Hampshire, to care for her father, who is dying from a mysterious brain disease.

Natural-born healer Emma Starling once had big plans for her life, but she's lost her way. Both funny and sad, the kind of story we like best. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, Book Riot - Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize It was a source of entertainment at Maple Street Cemetery. You'll fall in love with the offbeat cast of characters (both living and dead) and find yourself rooting for them right through the last page.'- Good Housekeeping (Book Club pick) A lost young woman returns to small-town New Hampshire under the strangest of circumstances in this one-of-a-kind novel of life, death, and whatever comes after from the acclaimed author of Rabbit Cake. 'This tragicomic novel is heartfelt, touching, and delightfully quirky.

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