num_pages: 160
description: 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 ReviewIt is New Years Eve 1990 in a small town in southeast Australia. Rus 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. Rus 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 Jacks 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 heartstopping 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 Australias most extraordinary young writers.
language: English
title: A Loving, Faithful Animal: A Novel
publisher: Catapult