5/28/2023 0 Comments Book mostly dead things![]() Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia!, writes, " Mostly Dead Things is one of the strangest and funniest and most surprising first novels I’ve ever read." And Alexander Chee raves, "If Heather Lewis and Joy Williams had a child it might be this - I don’t think I’ve ever read a novel like it. Jessa and Milo are also grieving the loss of her lover and his wife, Brynn, and trying to raise the children she left behind. Jessa, her brother, Milo, and her mother deal with their grief in very different ways - in her mother's case, by making sexually explicit art with taxidermied animals. Mostly Dead Things is the utterly original story of Jessa-Lynn Morton and her family, taxidermy shop owners struggling after the shocking suicide of Jessa's father. Kristen Arnett is many things - one of Book Twitter's funniest writers a librarian in Orlando, Florida a columnist for LitHub a short story author and a 7-Eleven scholar™ (according to her Twitter bio). ![]()
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