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Mostly Dead Things

โœ Scribed by Arnett, Kristen


Publisher
Tin House Books
Year
2019
Tongue
English
Weight
204 KB
Edition
3
Category
Fiction

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โœฆ Synopsis


One morning, Jessa-Lynn Morton walks into the family taxidermy shop to find that her father has committed suicide, right there on one of the metal tables. Shocked and grieving, Jessa steps up to manage the failing business, while the rest of the Morton family crumbles. Her mother starts sneaking into the shop to make aggressively lewd art with the taxidermied animals. Her brother Milo withdraws, struggling to function. And Brynn, Milos wifeand the only person Jessas ever been in love withwalks out without a word. As Jessa seeks out less-than-legal ways of generating income, her mothers art escalatespicture a figure of her dead husband and a stuffed buffalo in an uncomfortably sexual poseand the Mortons reach a tipping point. For the first time, Jessa has no choice but to learn who these people truly are, and ultimately how she fits alongside them.


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