Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Devotion: A Rat Story
    Unavailable
    Devotion: A Rat Story
    Unavailable
    Devotion: A Rat Story
    Audiobook52 minutes

    Devotion: A Rat Story

    Written by Maile Meloy

    Narrated by Cassandra Campbell

    4/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this audiobook

    From one of the most popular and acclaimed story writers of her generation, a single-volume short story

    "That the yellow house was thrillingly affordable might have been a warning sign, if Eleanor had known how to read it. But she'd been desperate. She was sharing a room with her four-year-old daughter, Hattie, in her parents' house, and she had to get out."  

    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 hers--with every cent and all of her pride and future tied up in the property--the giant rats show themselves. In the yard, in the kitchen, on her daughter's bed. A walk around the block reveals a decrepit neighboring house where two elderly sisters are feeding and fostering thousands of unusal "pets." What has Eleanor done? What action can she possibly take now?

    In Meloy's 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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateApr 28, 2015
    ISBN9780147523204
    Unavailable
    Devotion: A Rat Story
    Author

    Maile Meloy

    Maile Meloy is the author of the story collection Half in Love and the novel Liars and Saints, which was shortlisted for the 2005 Orange Prize. Meloy's stories have been published in The New Yorker, and she has received The Paris Review's Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, the PEN/Malamud Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in California.

    Related to Devotion

    Related audiobooks

    Literary Fiction For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Ruthless Innocence

      Jul 8, 2022

      Ruthless Innocence
      3 min read

    • Article

      Horror Begins At Home: The Haunting New Chapter In Domestic Noir

      Oct 29, 2022

      When Dee walks through the front door in Catriona Ward’s recent thriller The Last House on Needless Street, readers of gothic fiction find themselves in a familiar place. The house is “an underworld; a deep cave where lonely shafts of light fall on s

      4 min read

    • Article

      The House In The Woods

      Sep 8, 2021

      RELEASED 30 SEPTEMBER 224 pages | Paperback Author Yvette Fielding Publisher Andersen Press She’s been producing and presenting Most Haunted for almost two decades, so you’d expect former children’s programme presenter Yvette Fielding to be something

      1 min read

    • Article

      The Girl At The Window

      Aug 14, 2019

      RELEASED OUT NOW! 443 pages | Paperback/ebook/audiobook Author Rowan Coleman Publisher Ebury Press An old, decaying house, a child who talks about friends who were never there, strange cries in the night, and an apparition always seen before someone

      1 min read

    • Article

      Books

      Feb 17, 2023

      Books
      4 min read

    • Article

      Reviews Reader

      Aug 7, 2019

      BY AMBER LEE DODD Scholastic £6.99 REVIEW by Liza, age fourteen Amelia, the protagonist in Lightning Chase Me Home, is an intricately crafted character who shatters stigma about children with learning difficulties and empowers readers through

      3 min read

    • Article

      Out Now! Books

      Oct 7, 2021

      It's 1952 in London and almost Christmas, but with her mum and Uncle Frank busy at the post office, Penny Black is lonelier than ever. That changes when Penny finds a small, fluffy, funny, and talking creature in the post office one night trying to m

      1 min read

    • Article

      Unforgettable Fiction

      Apr 1, 2021

      Mpisi Mpisani is apoplectic with rage as he travels from Johannesburg to his home village to bury his mom who, it’s believed, was killed by his father through the use of sorcery. He swears he’ll murder his dad. However, more tragedy strikes when Mpis

      3 min read

    • Article

      Double Jeopardy

      Oct 18, 2020

      Bernard Beckett began writing The Tunnel of Dreams a few years back as bedtime reading for his twin boys, completing a section each day. The novel opens with twins Arlo and Stefan deciding to investigate an abandoned house late at night. They spot a

      2 min read

    • Article

      4 Delightful New Books For Middle-grade Readers

      Jun 7, 2018

      History, fantasy, humor, and drama mingle in these four wonderful new books for middle-grade readers – out just in time for summer reading.

      3 min read

    • Article

      A Grand Plan

      May 21, 2020

      A Grand Plan
      3 min read

    • Article

      Great Read

      May 18, 2022

      Great Read
      5 min read

    • Article

      Great Reads

      Oct 6, 2022

      Growing up in 1973, Eleanor's home was strained by sorrow and the echoes of war that silenced her parents. And always her mother, Kitty's, bitterness, twisting and poisoning everything she touched. She thought she knew what made her parents this way…

      2 min read

    • Article

      Meet the Writer

      May 27, 2023

      Meet the Writer
      4 min read

    • Article

      In 2008, Cultural Critic Janet Malcolm Read The Gossip Girl Books By Cecily Von Ziegesar. Here’s What She Had To Say...

      Mar 26, 2021

      As Lolita and Humbert drive past a horrible accident, which has left a shoe lying in the ditch beside a blood-spattered car, the nymphet remarks, “That was the exact type of moccasin I was trying to describe to that jerk in the store.” This is the ex

      1 min read

    • Article

      The Detached Drama of ‘Lazy City’

      Oct 25, 2023

      What does it mean to suffer when your pain is played out? The post The Detached Drama of ‘Lazy City’ appeared first on The Millions.

      5 min read

    • Article

      I Grew Up With Ghosts

      Nov 5, 2020

      I Grew Up With Ghosts
      2 min read

    • Article

      Paranormal Cold Case

      Sep 2, 2021

      On a cold winter’s night in the wilds of the Scottish mountains, two young climbers in need of a place to bed down where they can stay warm and dry think they get lucky when they come across an old house. But all is not what it seems. What happened i

      2 min read

    • Article

      Great Read

      Sep 7, 2023

      Great Read
      7 min read

    • Article

      The William Trevor Reader: “Her Mother’s Daughter”

      Apr 25, 2023

      It’s difficult to imagine what would compel someone to write a story like this. The post The William Trevor Reader: “Her Mother’s Daughter” appeared first on The Millions.

      2 min read

    • Article

      Storytime

      Aug 11, 2021

      By the author of the sweeping Paris, New York and London sagas, this novel is set around real events in 19th-century China. The Opium Wars broke out when the West lacked silver to buy tea; adventurers resorting to smuggling opium. Rutherfurd’s cast o

      2 min read

    • Article

      The Forgotten Brontë Sister

      Jan 15, 2020

      The Forgotten Brontë Sister
      4 min read

    Reviews for Devotion

    4/5

    7 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words