Loving, Faithful Animal A

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Your father. His head is a ghost trap. It's all he can do to open his mouth without letting them all howl out. Even so, you can still see them, sliding around the dark behind his eyes ......

It is New Year's Eve, 1990, and Ru's father, Jack, has disappeared in the wake of a savage incident. A returned serviceman still reckoning with the aftereffects of the Vietnam War, he has been an erratic presence at home. While a menacing creature stalks the periphery of their small town, Ru's sister seeks to escape the claustrophobia of rural life, and their mother takes refuge in the past. And then there's Les, Jack's brother, solitary and inscrutable, but harbouring his own desires.

A Loving, Faithful Animal is an incandescent portrait of one family searching for what may yet be redeemable from the ruins of war. Tender, brutal, and heart-stopping in its beauty, this is a hypnotic novel by one of Australia's brightest talents.