02813cam a2200361 i 4500 1165064005 TxAuBib 20230712120000.0 230306s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023005845 9781982198107 hardcover 1982198109 hardcover (OCoLC)1371956092 DLC eng rda DLC OCLCF KAG RNL GL4 VP@ UOK TxAuBib rda Brodeur, Adrienne, author. Little monsters : a novel / Adrienne Brodeur. First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition. New York : Avid Reader Press, 2023. ©2023. 304 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Ken and Abby Gardner lost their mother when they were small and they have been haunted by her absence ever since. Their father, Adam, a brilliant oceanographer, raised them mostly on his own in his remote home on Cape Cod, where the attachment between Ken and Abby deepened into something complicated, and as adults their relationship is strained. Now, years later, the siblings' lives are still deeply entwined. Ken is a successful businessman with political ambitions and a picture-perfect family and Abby is a talented visual artist who depends on her brother's goodwill, in part because he owns the studio where she lives and works. As the novel opens, Adam is approaching his seventieth birthday, staring down his mortality and fading relevance. He has always managed his bipolar disorder with medication, but he's determined to make one last scientific breakthrough and so he has secretly stopped taking his pills, which he knows will infuriate his children. Meanwhile, Abby and Ken are both harboring secrets of their own, and there is a new person on the periphery of the family -- Steph, who doesn't make her connection known. As Adam grows more attuned to the frequencies of the deep sea and less so to the people around him, Ken and Abby each plan the elaborate gifts they will present to their father on his birthday, jostling for primacy in this small family unit. Set in the fraught summer of 2016, and drawing on the biblical tale of Cain and Abel, Little Monsters is an absorbing, sharply observed family story by a writer who knows Cape Cod inside and out -- its Edenic lushness and its snakes."-- Provided by publisher. 20230721. Dysfunctional families Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. Siblings Fiction. People with bipolar disorder Fiction. Cape Cod Bay (Mass) Fiction. Domestic fiction. TXKIP