A riveting novel about
Cape Cod, complicated families,
and long-buried secrets…
“This smart, page-flipping novel has more secrets than you could successfully hide from your Sunday school teacher... [with] shades of Succession... Little Monsters offers the pleasures of a smart, absorbing debut novel.”
“Adrienne Brodeur knows her way around a family drama… with the novel Little Monsters, Brodeur weaves a story dense with stinging secrets and simmering resentments, rooted in another context that she knows well: the manicured towns and wild fringes of Cape Cod… Set against the island’s rippling dune grasses and scrub pines, their narrative is as elegantly rendered as it is compulsively readable.”
“Brodeur has indeed crafted a consummate summer read with Little Monsters, which somehow evokes smooth beach glass and hot pink sunsets with nary a mention of either. At the same time, she’s added notes of appealing complexity with a labyrinthine sibling relationship that recalls famous literary siblings like Franny and Zooey Glass or the sisters in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping.”
“Gorgeously told, with psychological nuance to spare ... This is the work of a seasoned and wonderfully wise storyteller.”
“Beautiful, lyrical and unvarnished, Adrienne Brodeur’s Little Monsters delivers its powerful emotional punches so subtly that they sneak up on you and leave you floored.”
“Little Monsters is an elegant and ambitious novel, a family saga deeply rooted in the landscape of Cape Cod. Adrienne Brodeur writes about complicated, sometimes difficult people and the natural world they inhabit with lyrical precision and deep emotional intelligence.”
“Nobody describes the natural beauty of Cape Cod or the lovely, messy bonds of family better than Adrienne Brodeur. Little Monsters is an absolutely captivating read.”
“A gripping portrait of how we carry the past into the present, and how the boundaries of kinship blur and change over time.”
“I so admire the layered complexity of this beautiful novel about a flawed yet unforgettable family—the interlocking ironies and wounds and strivings for love and clarity and accomplishment and growth, all so deeply embedded in the lush natural world that is the Cape. Every character in this mesmerizing story is distinct and real, and I found myself rooting for them all.”