Annie Hartnett
Autore di Rabbit Cake
Opere di Annie Hartnett
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- Sesso
- female
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- Opere
- 3
- Utenti
- 693
- Popolarità
- #36,521
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 48
- ISBN
- 18
Instead she returned home, feeling foolish and also without her healing power.
She found her father Clive was in the throes of a brain ailment. He had been fired from his professorship after making a scene about invisible cats in his classroom. He’s slowly been ousted from the band he loves and common tasks are becoming problematic. He spends his days in the company of the ghost of local naturalist Ernest Harold Baynes. Baynes, during his lifetime established a huge local wildlife preserve, filled with all manners of exotic beasts and extant to this day,. Clive also spends his days papering and repapering the town with missing posters for Emma’s vanished high school best friend.
Emma’s brother had a high school sports injury and is now a recovering addict. Drugs are a major problem in the town. The police believe that Emma’s missing friend is one more victim of the epidemic.
Emma takes over the guardianship of her father, and also assumes a job as the semipermanent substitute teacher for a class of problematic kids whose former teacher is also mixed up with the town’s drug problem.
In the background there is a chorus of ghosts, sitting on their tombstones, much like the graveyard in Our Town and commenting on the happenings of the town.
There is a lot going on in this novel – family expectations, ghosts, ghost animals, miraculous healings (this thread just frittered out - why?), the drug epidemic, caring for loved ones with dementia and young women going missing. Perhaps there were too many elements for me as I just never quite became invested in the many threads of the story, although I did like the upbeat ending.
One sentence review: [Demon Copperhead] meets [[Our Town]] along with historical photographs of the real naturalist Ernest Harold Baynes.… (altro)