![]() ![]() ![]() Reeling from the loss, the Morton family descends into chaos: Jessa’s mother starts creating pornographic art out of taxidermied animals as a creative response to her repressive marriage, while her brother, Milo, offloads responsibility of his kids in favor of day drinking. ![]() The novel opens with a gruesome scene, as protagonist Jessa-Lynn Morton walks into the family taxidermy shop to find that her father has killed himself on the metal table, blood and brain matter spilling onto the floor. Meant as instruction on how to taxidermy a deer, it’s also an accurate description of how Arnett renders her characters - not just precisely, but carefully - as they navigate love and loss in this quietly devastating story set in the Sunshine State. Cutting with precision sounds like the same thing, but it’s not,” is how Kristen Arnett’s debut novel, Mostly Dead Things, opens. How we slice the skin: Carefully, that’s a given. ![]()
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