We’re so excited to celebrate Annie Hartnett’s wonderful UNLIKELY ANIMALS via Instagram Live! Tune in for the fun!

It may seem impossible to call a novel featuring an opioid epidemic and a Greek-chorus-like coterie of dead townspeople “funny,” but UNLIKELY ANIMALS delivers comedic gold along with its incredibly moving story of the Starling family in the midst of utter turmoil. These characters and the lovingly rendered town of Everton, NH, will stay with you long past the last page.

Annie Hartnett is the author of Rabbit Cake, which was listed as one of Kirkus Reviews’s Best Books of 2017 and a finalist for the New England Book Award. She has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Associates of the Boston Public Library. She studied philosophy at Hamilton College, has an MA from Middlebury College, and an MFA from the University of Alabama. When she began writing Unlikely Animals, she was living in the groundskeeper’s house in a cemetery. She now lives in a small town in Massachusetts with her husband, daughter, and darling border collie, Mr. Willie Nelson.