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Title: Other People's Pets
Condition: New
Subtitle: A Novel
ISBN-10: 1250304164
EAN: 9781250304162
ISBN: 9781250304162
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 06/07/2021
Description: La La's world stops being whole when her mother, who never wanted a child, abandons her twice. First, when La La falls through thin ice on a skating trip, and again when the accusations of "unfit mother" feel too close to true. Left alone with her father-a locksmith by trade, and a thief in reality-La La is denied a regular life. She becomes her father's accomplice, calming the watchdog while he strips families of their most precious belongings.When her father's luck runs out and he is arrested for burglary, everything La La has painstakingly built unravels. In her fourth year of veterinary school, she is forced to drop out, leaving school to pay for her father's legal fees the only way she knows how-robbing homes once again.As an animal empath, she rationalizes her theft by focusing on houses with pets whose maladies only she can sense and caring for them before leaving with the family's valuables. The news reports a puzzled police force-searching for a thief who left behind medicine for the dog, water for the parrot, or food for the hamster.Desperate to compensate for new and old losses, La La continues to rob homes, but it's a strategy that ultimately will fail her.Other People's Pets examines the gap between the families we're born into and those we create, and the danger that holding on to a troubled past may rob us of the future.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 209mm
Item Length: 137mm
Item Width: 22mm
Item Weight: 256g
Author: R.L. Maizes
Genre: Fiction
Release Year: 2021

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