A Loving, Faithful Animal (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781936787579)

"I found myself considering those rare things only books can do, feats outside the purview of film or fine art . . . Gorgeous." --Samantha Hunt, The New York Times Book Review

It is New Year's Eve 1990, in a small town in southeast Australia. Ru's father, Jack, one of thousands of Australians once conscripted to serve in the Vietnam War, has disappeared. This time Ru thinks he might be gone for good. As rumors spread of a huge black cat stalking the landscape beyond their door, the rest of the family is barely holding on. Ru's sister, Lani, is throwing herself into sex, drugs, and dangerous company. Their mother, Evelyn, is escaping into memories of a more vibrant youth. And meanwhile there is Les, Jack's inscrutable brother, who seems to move through their lives like a ghost, earning both trust and suspicion.

A Loving, Faithful Animal is an incandescent portrait of one family searching for what may yet be redeemable from the ruins of war. Tender, brutal, and heart-stopping in its beauty, this novel marks the arrival in the United States of Josephine Rowe, the winner of the 2016 Elizabeth Jolley Prize and one of Australia's most extraordinary young writers.

Author: Josephine Rowe
ISBN-10: 1936787571
ISBN-13: 9781936787579
Publisher: Catapult
Language: English
Published: 09/12/2017
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2017
Publishers Weekly 07/10/2017
Booklist 08/01/2017 pg. 35
Library Journal 10/15/2017 pg. 81