New Animal

New Animal is a poignant, darkly comedic look at human connection from a biting and original new voice in Ella Baxter.

Amelia Aurelia is approaching thirty and her closest relationships -- other than her mother -- are through her dating apps. She works at the family mortuary business as a cosmetic mortician with her eccentric step-father and older brother, whose throuple's current preoccupation is with what type of snake to adopt. When Amelia's affectionate mother passes away without warning, she is left without anchor. Fleeing the funeral, she seeks solace with her birth-father in Tasmania and stumbles into the local BDSM community, where her riotous attempts to belong are met with confusion, shock, and empathy.

Hilarious and heartfelt, New Animal reveals hard-won truths as Amelia struggles to find her place in the world without her mother, with the help of her two well-intentioned fathers and adventures at the kink club.

* Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction, Shortlist.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Two Dollar Radio
Published: 02/15/2022
ISBN: 9781953387127
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d

Review Citations: Booklist 12/01/2021 pg. 22
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2022
Foreword 12/27/2021
Publishers Weekly 01/10/2022