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Annie Hartnett pens dark comedy "The Road to Tender Hearts"

By Joe Donahue
Published May 12, 2025 at 11:20 AM EDT

Annie Hartnett is the author of “Unlikely Animals: The Novel” which won the Julia Ward Howe Prize for fiction and was longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. She is also the author of “Rabbit Cake,” a finalist for the New England Book Award.

Her latest novel is “The Road to Tender Hearts: A Novel” which is darkly comic and also warm hearted about an old man on a cross-country mission to reunite with his high school crush.

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