Devotion: A Rat Story
Maile Meloy
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From one of the most popular and acclaimed story writers of her generation, a single-volume short story from the author of 2017's Do Not Become Alarmed, a beautifully packaged palm-sized gift book.
âThat the yellow house was thrillingly affordable might have been a warning sign, if Eleanor had known how to read it. But sheâd been desperate. She was sharing a room with her four-year-old daughter, Hattie, in her parentsâ house, and she had to get out.â Â
From the award-winning novelist and short story writer Maile Meloy, Devotion: A Rat Story is an exquisitely unsettling tale about a young single mother whose new home becomes a kind of nightmare she must resolve on her own.
Eleanor is in such a rush to move away from her parents that she allows an imperious realtor to rush her to close on the too-good-to-be-true home without an inspection. Shortly after the house becomes legally hersâwith every cent and all of her pride and future tied up in the propertyâthe giant rats show themselves. In the yard, in the kitchen, on her daughterâs bed. A walk around the block reveals a decrepit neighboring house where two elderly sisters are feeding and fostering thousands of unusal âpets.â What has Eleanor done? What action can she possibly take now?
In Meloyâs characteristically clean, assured style, she captures the hopes and horrors of domestic life with an element of suspense that drives the reader feverishly to the end.
âThat the yellow house was thrillingly affordable might have been a warning sign, if Eleanor had known how to read it. But sheâd been desperate. She was sharing a room with her four-year-old daughter, Hattie, in her parentsâ house, and she had to get out.â Â
From the award-winning novelist and short story writer Maile Meloy, Devotion: A Rat Story is an exquisitely unsettling tale about a young single mother whose new home becomes a kind of nightmare she must resolve on her own.
Eleanor is in such a rush to move away from her parents that she allows an imperious realtor to rush her to close on the too-good-to-be-true home without an inspection. Shortly after the house becomes legally hersâwith every cent and all of her pride and future tied up in the propertyâthe giant rats show themselves. In the yard, in the kitchen, on her daughterâs bed. A walk around the block reveals a decrepit neighboring house where two elderly sisters are feeding and fostering thousands of unusal âpets.â What has Eleanor done? What action can she possibly take now?
In Meloyâs characteristically clean, assured style, she captures the hopes and horrors of domestic life with an element of suspense that drives the reader feverishly to the end.
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Maile Meloy is the author of the story collections Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It and Half in Love, and the novels Liars and Saints and A Family Daughter, as well as a middle-grade trilogy. Her stories have been published in The New Yorker, Granta, Zoetrope: All-Story, and other publications. She has been shortlisted for Britainâs  Orange Prize, and has received The Paris Reviewâs Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, the PEN/Malamud Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowhsip. In 2007 she was chosen as one of Grantaâs Best Young American Novelists. Her short stories were adapted into the 2016 film, Certain Women, starring Kristen Stewart and Michelle Williams. She lives in Los Angeles.
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