Mostly Dead Things by Kristen N. Arnett

Mostly Dead Things

A Novel

Kristen N. Arnett

‘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, Milo’s wife – and the only person Jessa’s ever been in love with – walks out without a word. As Jessa seeks out less-than-legal ways of generating income, her mother’s art escalates – picture a figure of her dead husband and a stuffed buffalo in an uncomfortably sexual pose – and 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.’–Publisher description.

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ISBN 9781631495632
Genre Award Winner; Black Interest; Fiction
Publication Date 2019
Publisher Liveright
Format Hardcover
Notes Lambda Literary Award winner
LoC Classification PS3604.E58657 .P38 2019
Rating Great
Subject Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) – Fiction; FICTION / Literary; Immigrants – Fiction; Immigrants – Fiction. – New York (State); Jamaicans – Fiction. – New York (State); Mother-daughter relationship – Fiction; Self-realization in women – Fiction; Sexual minorities – Fiction; Women – Fiction. – Jamaica
BookID 15257

Author: LFWBooks