Though Emma initially intends to come to Everton for a short stay, she begins to rethink her approach to the moment when she is named the official guardian for her father. His hallucinations lost him his job, and his place in the beloved cover band. He spends most of his free time stapling missing person posters to trees around town. The people in the town are sure she is dead of an overdose, but Clive remains hopeful that she will be found. When she returns, she finds that her childhood best friend, Crystal Nash has disappeared. He lives with the ghost of Harold Baynes, who people around him believe is just another consequence of his disease. Her father is suffering from an unnamed neurodegenerative disease which causes him to have disruptive hallucinations. Emma left the town immediately after graduating high school and has not returned since. The Park is home to the wealthiest people in the region, and no one in the town is allowed inside. Everton is a small rural town that is surrounded by an enormous nature preserve called Corbin Park. The dead of the town of Everton are the novel’s first person narrators.Įmma Starling returns home to Everton, New Hampshire on her mother’s request that she visit with her father before he passes away. The text is interspersed with excerpts from the writings of Ernest Harold Baynes, a real-life naturalist who lived at the turn of twentieth century and was an integral part of local lore.
Unlikely Animals is divided into 64 unnamed chapters which are further divided into 7 parts, named after animals that play critical roles in that portion of the storyline. The following version of this book was used to create the study guide: Hartnett, Annie.
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