Age: 13
female
Aria Ashlyn Goodson was born on the 16th of December 2012 in McKinney, TX. She began her career by falling in love with musical theatre when performing as an alley cat in The Aristocats at age 4. Not long after, her parents enrolled her in acting classes. As a result, she booked a local commercial that was followed by her first feature film, Thunder Road. Shortly after she turned 5, she booked Murder Made Me Famous portraying the little sister to a notorious serial killer and filmed for a web series titled, The Potion. When she isn't acting, you can find her ice skating, at gymnastics, or modeling for local boutiques and magazines.
Aria Goodson
Leanne Hatfield
for Leanne Hatfield in Unlikely Animals
Suggested by ericasmith
It was a source of entertainment at Maple Street Cemetery. Both funny and sad, the kind of story we like best. Natural-born healer Emma Starling once had big plans for her life, but she's lost her way. A med school dropout, she's come back to small-town Everton, New Hampshire to care for her father, dying from a mysterious brain disease. Clive Starling has been hallucinating small animals, as well as visions of the ghost of a long-dead naturalist, Ernest Harold Baynes, once known for letting wild animals live in his house. This ghost has been giving Clive some ideas on how to spend his final days. Emma arrives home knowing she must face her dad's illness, her mom's judgement, and her younger brother's recent stint in rehab, but she's unprepared to find that her former best friend from high school is missing, with no one bothering to look for her. The police say they don't spend much time looking for drug addicts. Emma's dad is the only one convinced the young woman might still be alive, and Emma is hopeful he could be right. Someone should look for her, at least. Emma isn't really trying to be a hero—but somehow she and her father set in motion just the kind of miracle the town needs. Set against the backdrop of a small town in the throes of a very real opioid crisis, Unlikely Animals is a tragicomic novel about familial expectations, imperfect friendships, and the possibility of resurrecting that which had been thought irrevocably lost.
