A National Bestseller! ôJuicyàsimmers with tension as secrets explode out into the open.ö ùThe Washington Post * ôSo alluringàI raced happily through the pages.ö ùThe New York Times Book Review * ôCompulsively readable.ö ùVogue * ôAn absolutely captivating read.ö ùElin Hilderbrand From the author of the bestselling memoir Wild Game comes a riveting novel about Cape Cod, complicated families, and long-buried secrets.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 complicatedùand as adults their relationship is strained. Now, years later, the siblingsÆ 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 brotherÆs goodwill, in part because he owns the studio where she lives and works. 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 heÆs 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 familyùSteph, who doesnÆt 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. Set in the fraught summer of 2016, Little Monsters is a ôsmart, page-flipping novelà[with] shades of Successionö (The Boston Globe) from a writer who knows Cape Cod inside and outùits Edenic lushness and its snakes.

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Personen: Brodeur, Adrienne

Standort: Onleihe

Interessenkreis: Fremdsprachig