Título: Little Monsters: A Novel
Autor: Adrienne Brodeur
Sinopse: 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.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Little Monsters: A Novel”, de Adrienne Brodeur, publicado pela editora Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, em 2023 e com 320 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Páginas: 320
Ano: 2023
Edição:
Linguagem: inglês
ISBN: 1982198109
ISBN13: 9781982198107
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster oferecem uma experiência de leitura que combina narrativas profundamente humanas com análises detalhadas de temas contemporâneos e históricos. O catálogo privilegia obras que exploram jornadas pessoais de superação e transformação, muitas vezes ambientadas em contextos reais ou históricos, como pequenas comunidades americanas ou eventos marcantes do século XX. Há um equilíbrio entre textos mais narrativos, com personagens complexos e enredos emocionais, e obras informativas, que apresentam relatos jornalísticos ou investigações detalhadas, como histórias de grandes eventos esportivos ou políticos. O tom varia do intimista e reflexivo ao crítico e satírico, com ritmo que pode ser tanto contemplativo quanto dinâmico, dependendo do foco da obra.
