Animals (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781609452896)

It is the moment every twenty-something must confront: the time to grow up. Adulthood looms, with all its numbing tranquility and stifling complacency. The end of prolonged adolescence is near.

Laura and Tyler are two women whose twenties have been a blur of overstayed parties, a fondness for drugs that has shifted from cautious experimentation to catholic indulgence, and hangovers that don't relent until Monday morning. They've been best friends, partners in excess, for the last ten years. But things are changing: Laura is engaged to Jim, a classical pianist who has long since given up the carousing lifestyle. He disapproves of Tyler's reckless ways and of what he percieves to be her bad influence on Laura. Jim pulls Laura toward adulthood and responsibility, toward what society says she should be, but Tyler isn't ready to let her go. But what does Laura want for herself? And how can she choose between Tyler and Jim, between one life she loves and another she's supposed to love?

Raw, uproarious, and deeply affecting, Animals speaks to an entire generation caught between late-adolescence and adulthood wondering what exactly they'll have to give up in order to grow up.

Author: Emma Jane Unsworth
ISBN-10: 1609452895
ISBN-13: 9781609452896
Publisher: Europa Editions
Language: English
Published: 10/06/2015
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 1.20d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2015
New York Times Book Review 09/20/2015 pg. 30
Booklist 10/01/2015 pg. 22
Publishers Weekly 10/19/2015
Library Journal 11/01/2015 pg. 83
New Yorker (The) 02/08/2016 pg. 106