04705cam a2200817 4500 1128699889 TxAuBib 20240120120000.0 ||||||s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781982198121 1982198125 B0BHTP5NWM Amazon ea6c1dc7-2278-4c7b-865b-59c28b688755 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9311364 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Brodeur, Adrienne. Little Monsters [Libby]. Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, 2023. secrets. Shame. bohemia. Maine. book club. Cape Cod. mental health. detective. Boston. trauma. trump. marine biologist. envy. wild game. Yes. summer read. privilege . Siblings. bipolar disorder. Family Saga . affair. Entitlement. Cain and Abel. Secret pregnancy. 2016 election. Wellfleet. #metoo. j. courtney sullivan. Jennette McCurdy. maggie shipstead. the paper palace. Mary Beth Keane. every summer after. miranda cowley heller. alice elliott dark. ask again. dysfuntional family. fellowship point. seating arrangements. b&n book club. gen padalecki. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 6709kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. HTML:<b>A National Bestseller!</b><br /> <br /> <b>"Juicy...simmers with tension as secrets explode out into the open." —<i>The Washington Post</i> * "So alluring...I raced happily through the pages." —<i>The New York Times Book Review</i> * "Compulsively readable." —<i>Vogue</i> * "An absolutely captivating read." —Elin Hilderbrand</b><br /> <br /> <b>From the author of the bestselling memoir <i>Wild Game</i> comes a riveting novel about Cape Cod, complicated families, and long-buried secrets.</b><br /> 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 complicated—and as adults their relationship is strained. Now, years later, the siblings' 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 brother's goodwill, in part because he owns the studio where she lives and works.<br /> <br /> 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 he's 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 family—Steph, who doesn't 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.<br /> <br /> Set in the fraught summer of 2016, <i>Little Monsters</i> is a "smart, page-flipping novel...[with] shades of <i>Succession</i>" (<i>The Boston Globe</i>) from a writer who knows Cape Cod inside and out—its Edenic lushness and its snakes. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2024-01-19 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=ea6c1dc7-2278-4c7b-865b-59c28b688755&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=ea6c1dc7-2278-4c7b-865b-59c28b688755&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=ea6c1dc7-2278-4c7b-865b-59c28b688755&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) T3L