A loving, faithful animal

By Josephine Rowe

Subjects: Fiction, coming of age, Missing persons -- Fiction, Australia -- Fiction, Veterans' families -- Fiction, Fiction, family life, Missing persons, Veterans' families, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, Veterans, fiction, Australia, fiction

Description: On New Year's Eve 1990, in southern Australia, a troubled Vietnam veteran named Jack has disappeared. Jack's wife Evelyn and children Ru, Lani, and Les cope with the bonds and limits of family as rumors spread of a huge black cat stalking the landscape outside their door.