{"product_id":"book-dngr","title":"Other People's Pets","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Maizes's debut novel is brought to life by Devon Sorvari's engaging narration. Her delivery is well matched to the story's short declarative sentences as she makes listeners care about La La in spite of her bad choices.\" -- \u003ci\u003eAudioFile Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eR.L. Maizes's \u003ci\u003eOther People's Pets\u003c\/i\u003e examines the gap between the families we're born into and those we create, and the danger that holding on to a troubled past may rob us of the future.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLa La Fine relates to animals better than she does to other people. Abandoned by a mother who never wanted a family, raised by a locksmith-turned-thief father, La La looks to pets when it feels like the rest of the world conspires against her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLa La's world stops being whole when her mother, who never wanted a child, abandons her twice. First, when La La falls through thin ice on a skating trip, and again when the accusations of \"unfit mother\" feel too close to true. Left alone with her father-a locksmith by trade, and a thief in reality-La La is denied a regular life. She becomes her father's accomplice, calming the watchdog while he strips families of their most precious belongings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen her father's luck runs out and he is arrested for burglary, everything La La has painstakingly built unravels. In her fourth year of veterinary school, she is forced to drop out, leaving school to pay for her father's legal fees the only way she knows how-robbing homes once again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs an animal empath, she rationalizes her theft by focusing on houses with pets whose maladies only she can sense and caring for them before leaving with the family's valuables. The news reports a puzzled police force-searching for a thief who left behind medicine for the dog, water for the parrot, or food for the hamster.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDesperate to compensate for new and old losses, La La continues to rob homes, but it's a strategy that ultimately will fail her.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Macmillan Audio production from Celadon Books  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"...Maizes possesses such magic. This examination of family, across all lines and definitions, will open you up in such necessary, beautiful ways.\"-\u003cb\u003eKevin Wilson, author of \u003ci\u003eNothing to See Here\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Family Fang\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49369940099376,"sku":"BDdngr","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/dngr-cover.jpg?v=1761000109","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-dngr","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}