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Rabbit Cake
Annie Hartnett
★★★★★· Published 2017· 338 pages· read 2022
Narrated by a grief-stricken, wonderfully odd little girl after her mother drowns sleepwalking. Funny and sad in the same breath, and Hartnett never puts a foot wrong.
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An 80-year-old sets off across the country to win back his high school crush, then gets saddled with two orphaned grandkids and a cat who can predict death. Darkly funny and big-hearted at once.
★ 5Unlikely Animals
Annie Hartnett
A young woman comes home to care for her dying father, narrated by the town's cemetery dead. Odd, tender, and full of heart.
More Than Enough
Anna Quindlen
A high school English teacher takes a joke ancestry test from her book club and gets a result that upends her whole family story. Classic Quindlen — warm, wise, all about friendship.