Set in a richly rendered Florida and filled with delightfully wry prose and bracing honesty, Arnett’s novel introduces a keenly skillful author with imagination and insight to spare. Jessa also begins a romantic relationship with Lucinda, the director of the gallery and benefactor for Jessa’s mother’s newfound (and, for Jessa, “perverted”) artistry. This item: Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett Hardcover 31.96 Real Life: A Novel by Brandon Taylor Hardcover 30.00 Cleanness by Garth Greenwell Hardcover 29.58 With Teeth: A Novel Kristen Arnett 288 Paperback 26 offers from 15.11 From the Publisher Product description Review Arnett possesses all the bravery her characters dream of. As Jessa grieves over her lost loved ones, she must also deal with her remaining ones: Milo sinks from the world, missing work and barely paying attention to his children, and Jessa’s mother enters a late creative period, using the stuffed and mounted animals from the shop to make elaborate sexual tableaus for a local art gallery. Additionally, Jessa mourns the loss of Brynn, her brother’s (now) ex-wife and Jessa’s longtime lover, who left both her and Milo years before. She also finds a note asking her to take care of the failing business, her mother, and her brother, Milo. In Arnett’s dark and original debut, Jessa discovers her father dead of a suicide in the family’s Florida taxidermy shop.
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