You're an Animal
  • Published:
    Aug-2023 (Hardcover)
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    Literary
  • Time Period:
    19th Century American West
  • Pages:
    272
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A tender portrait of four misfits, on the run across Texas, that speaks to those who are left out, those who opt out -- and to the wild animal in us all

“Libaire creates a delicious universe at a constant brink of collapse, a universe I never wanted to see end.” -- Gerardo Sámano Córdova, author of Monstrilio


It's springtime in Oklahoma, and Ernie, an outcast in a group of outcasts, feels uneasy. Nerves at the abandoned summer camp where he and his fellow oddballs are crashing have been on edge since the arrival of a teenager named Coral, unceremoniously dropped off from her family's minivan one afternoon. Adding to her aura of mystery, Coral doesn't say a word. Ever.

When a drug lab explosion burns the compound to the ground, Ernie, Coral, and the hard-living couple Staci and Ray escape on a pair of motorcycles. Feeling shaky with fear and alive with a new surge of freedom, the four outcasts find a rundown house in rural Texas: It's a place to stay, they tell themselves, for now. Yet to their surprise, over card games and wild strawberries and target-shooting and late-night dancing to ZZ Top on the local radio, a quirky little family forms. At the heart of their new home is Coral, whose silence only amplifies her strange, undefinable power and the sense that she found them for a reason.

But soon, tensions rise, and a mysterious threat begins to materialize -- whether it's coming from inside or outside the house still isn't clear. All this crew knows is, now there's something at stake: their chosen family, forged by both loneliness and joy, and bonded by an awkward kind of love.
Sub-Genres
People / Creatures
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    • First Edition
    • Aug-2023
    • Random House
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0593449436
    • ISBN13: 9780593449431
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    • Aug-2023
    • Random House
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0593449444
    • ISBN13: 9780593449448



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