You'll devour this bizarre, brilliant book., Mostly Dead Things suggests, above all else, that love is not something to be conquered, killed, skinned and mounted. She uses the language of taxidermy to explore the memories that ripple beneath our longest held beliefs., Arnett is a talented and original writer, and everybody paying attention to her work will be eagerly awaiting whatever else she has in store., An ambitious debut writerwith extraordinary promise, Arnett brings all of Florida's strangeness to lifethrough the lens of a family snowed under with grief., Mostly Dead Things is a phenomenal novel about family, taxidermy, and queerness.

Arnett writes about how we have to overcome our first understanding of the world in order to process it as an adult.

a rock-solid family novel, brightened by its eccentric milieu., It's darkly funny, both macabre and irreverent, and its narrator is so real that every time I stopped reading the book, I felt a tiny pull at the back of my mind, as if I'd left a good friend in the middle of a conversation., An incisive and peculiar study of grief. celebration of the strangeness of life and love and loss, all of it as murky as a Florida swamp but beautiful in its wildness., Mostly Dead Things is very Florida, very gay, and very good. And, yes, its humor is as dark and glinting as the black plastic eye of a taxidermy ferret. Set in a richly renderedFlorida and filled with delightfully wry prose and bracing honesty, Arnett'snovel introduces a keenly skillful author with imagination and insight to spare., Precisely as strange, riotous, searing, and subversive as you'd want it to be.

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