Tags
Cape Cod Bay (MAss), dysfunctional families, family secrets, people with bipolar disorder, siblings
Author of her own family story, Wild Game : My Mother, Her Secret, and Me, Brodeur is no stranger to family secrets. This is her debut novel and I found it absorbing. She knows Cape Cod nature so intimately that it is absolutely a character in the book – a soothing backdrop to the events.
“A juicy portrait of a wealthy family on the brink of disaster. . . Little Monsters simmers with tension as secrets explode out into the open. . . Tensely constructed and absorbing. . . A consummate summer read, which somehow evokes smooth beach glass and hot pink sunsets with nary a mention of either.” —The Washington Post
“[An] engaging and neatly plotted novel. . . Little Monsters is so alluring, with its sense of looming familial implosion within a cultural implosion. . . Brodeur is very deliberately examining a small family horror story within a larger political context.” —The New York Times
“Shimmering. . . With this intricate story, Brodeur distinguishes herself as a novelist of the first rank.” —Publishers Weekly, *Starred Review*
“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.” —The Boston Globe




