Ken, a businessman with political ambitions, is caught in an internet chatroom and forced into couples therapy. Brodeur’s novel takes place on the Cape, centering on the Gardner family, who live there year-round. I’ve always been obsessed with sibling dynamics and fiction on family dramas, this one really delivers. He followed her down the hall to the exam room, still puzzling over why his longtime doctor, at least five years his junior, would have retired. Their dad Adam, a renown oceanographer, is turning seventy, forced into retirement, feeling pushed out and irrelevant.

To think, so many people were desperate to get their hands on a bottle of Ritalin or Adderall, and Adam was lucky enough to have a built-in supply. Ken was insufferable, Adam was frustrating, Jenny had glimpses of goodness but was inconsistent, David was OK.In what might be a manic moment, Adam reasons, “Stellwagen needed to be explained from the bottom up, not the top down . Howl with laughter and squeal with delight at this monstrously exciting new picture book from number one bestselling author David Walliams, illustrated by the awesome Adam Stower! Little Monsters by Adrienne Brodeur was a captivating book that took place on scenic Cape Cod over the late spring and summer months of 2016. going to try my best to explain my thoughts here… 😅 Sometimes I struggle reading and reviewing literary fiction in bookish communities because there is a pressure that you have to like it, and if you don’t you must not “get it.

Adrienne Brodeur (Wild Game) is a master when it comes to writing about family dysfunction and her portrayal of a bi-polar, narcissistic father and his flawed but fully human children is spot-on.He awoke daily to random words, incoherent thoughts, and fleeting images, convinced that their meaning, though not yet clear, would develop in the gelatin silver process of his mind. I devoured Little Monsters and I believe it is going to be one of those rare books that both literary readers and escapist readers can equally enjoy. But I read the first few pages and by the time I completed the first chapter, there was no way I was coming up for air. From the author of the bestselling memoir Wild Game comes a riveting novel about Cape Cod, complicated families, and long-buried secrets—for fans of the New York Times bestsellers The Paper Palace and Ask Again, Yes .