“Kristen Arnett has written a portrait of an American family grieving their dead and their living, and lovingly tearing one another to shreds in the process. Kristen Arnett is wickedly talented and a wholly original voice.” -Jami Attenberg, author of All Grown Up “Mostly Dead Things packs messed-up families, scandalous love affairs, art, life, death and the great state of Florida into one delicious, darkly funny package. Kristen Arnett is the queen of the Florida no one has ever told you about, and on every page she brings it to a steely and vivid life.” -Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel There’s a gunslinger cool to every sentence, like someone is telling you the last story they’ll ever tell you. “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. In Kristen Arnett’s expert hands, taxidermy becomes a language to capture our species’ impossible and contradictory desire to be held and to be free. A love letter to Florida and to family, to half-lit swamps and the 7/11, and to the beasts that only pretend to hold their poses inside us. “Mostly Dead Things is one of the strangest and funniest and most surprising first novels I’ve ever read.
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