![]() ![]() ![]() Arnett is not a flowery writer-she says what she means-and her honesty allows us direct access to her characters and their lives. This is a book where prose style and content work together beautifully. Jessa was in love with Brynn-had loved her before Milo had, in fact-and both Jessa and Milo are unable to get out from under the weight of the loss. His wife, Brynn, disappeared years earlier. Milo has become a shadow of himself, no longer caring for his daughter and stepson. She tries to keep the taxidermy shop running and to hold the family together, but their mother, reeling from the death of her husband, is falling apart, breaking into the shop to arrange the mounted animals in compromising positions. Years later, in her thirties, Jessa finds her father dead by suicide. In the opening pages, young Jessa-Lynn and her brother Milo watch their father, a taxidermist, cut open a deer. In Kristen Arnett’s debut novel, Mostly Dead Things, the messy life of a family is laid bare on the page. ![]()
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