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Mostly dead things : a novel
- Title
- Mostly dead things : a novel / Kristen Arnett.
- Author
- Arnett, Kristen
- Publication
- Portland, Oregon : Tin House Books, 2019.
- ©2019
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 19-3185 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 356 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "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.
- Subject
- Fathers > Death > Fiction
- Grief > Fiction
- Dysfunctional families > Fiction
- Taxidermy > Fiction
- Family-owned business enterprises > Fiction
- FICTION / Family Life / General
- FICTION / Humorous / General
- FICTION / LGBT / Lesbian
- Family-owned business enterprises
- Dysfunctional families
- Fathers > Death
- Grief
- Taxidermy
- Genre/Form
- Humorous fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Call Number
- JFD 19-3185
- ISBN
- 9781947793309
- 1947793306
- LCCN
- 2019005820
- 40029232497
- OCLC
- 1053993382
- Author
- Arnett, Kristen, author.
- Title
- Mostly dead things : a novel / Kristen Arnett.
- Publisher
- Portland, Oregon : Tin House Books, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029232497
- Research Call Number
- JFD 19-3185