Full name: A Loving, Faithful Animal: A Novel

Author: Josephine Rowe Year: 2016 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Contemporary, War/Military Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781936787579 1936787571

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 the winner of the 2016 Elizabeth Jolley Prize, one of Australia's most extraordinary young writers. Similar books: Ask Him Why by Catherine Ryan Hyde Sparta by Roxana Robinson Be Safe I Love You by Cara Hoffman July, July by Tim O'Brien The Illuminations by Andrew O'Hagan Allah is Not Obliged by Ahmadou Kourouma The Human Body by Paolo Giordano Radiance of Tomorrow by Ishmael Beah The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri Brodeck's Report by Philippe Claudel Island of a Thousand Mirrors by Nayomi Munaweera Waiting for Eden by Elliot Ackerman The Wasted Vigil by Nadeem Aslam All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu Guantanamo Boy by Anna Perera A Good Country by Laleh Khadivi Dark at the Crossing by Elliot Ackerman The People of Forever are Not Afraid by Shani Boianjiu Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver