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Mostly Dead Things
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“After her father commits suicide, Jessa is tasked with saving her familyās taxidermy business from going bankrupt. She also has to take care of her familyās strange problems ā including her motherās affinity for turning their taxidermy into risquĆ© works of art. Mostly Dead Things is a fun, eccentric book with a steamy lesbian romance, ongoing sibling rivalry, and dark confessions of a family that is willing to go the mile in order to make ends meet. Stuffed with humor, heartfelt moments, and some gritty bits, Arnettās writing will make you laugh, cry, and wonder how an authorās first novel can be so engaging and well-written!”
Sage Cristal,
UC San Diego Bookstore
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, Miloās wifeāand the only person Jessaās ever been in love withāwalks out without a word.
As Jessa seeks out less-than-legal ways of generating income, her motherās art escalatesāpicture a figure of her dead husband and a stuffed buffalo in an uncomfortably sexual poseāand 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.
Kristen Arnettās debut novel is a darkly funny, heart-wrenching, and eccentric look at loss and love.
Kristen Arnett is a queer fiction and essay writer. She won the 2017 Coil Book Award for her debut short fiction collection, Felt in the Jaw, and was awarded Ninth Letterās 2015 Literary Award in Fiction. Sheās a columnist for Literary Hub, and her work has either appeared or is upcoming in North American Review, the Normal School, Gulf Coast, TriQuarterly, Guernica, Electric Literature, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Bennington Review, Tin House Flash Fridays / The Guardian, Salon, The Rumpus, and elsewhere.
Jesse Vilinsky is a classically trained actress and voice actor, having graduated from the USC School of Dramatic Arts and BADA in London. She has lent her voice to numerous film and television projects and has worked on various video games, animation, and commercial projects as well. As a narrator, Jesse has garnered recognition in AudioFile magazine for her expertly voiced characters and ability to bring forth the strength and truth of their stories.