Sun Xiaohua, age thirty-three,
a rural spinster whose head is bowed under the pressure to marry.
She unexpectedly inherits a pet shop from a distant relative, only to discover that it opens late at night, too.
The customers aren’t living creatures:
a crying orange cat, dogs who died poisoned and wreathed in black mist, an arrogant, evil beagle, a proud, cool-headed police dog who refuses to come inside...
Behind every pet lies an unresolved obsession.
The pet shop at midnight is the final resting place for the dead,
and the beginning of her new life.
