Mostly Dead Things
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Narrated by:
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Jesse Vilinsky
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By:
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Kristen Arnett
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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.
Kristen Arnett's debut novel is a darkly funny, heart-wrenching, and eccentric look at loss and love.
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It is a perfect July morning, and Elle, a 50-year-old happily married mother of three, awakens at “The Paper Palace” - the family summer place she has visited every summer of her life. But this morning is different: Last night, Elle and her oldest friend, Jonas, crept out the back door into the darkness and had sex with each other for the first time, all while their spouses chatted away inside. Now, Elle will have to decide between the life she has made with her genuinely beloved husband and the life she always imagined she would have had with her childhood love.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The story has too much child abuse discription
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Like Family
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This powerful and haunting memoir details the years Paula McLain and her two sisters spent as foster children after being abandoned by both parents in California in the early 1970s. As wards of the State, the sisters spent the next 14 years moving from foster home to foster home. The dislocations, confusions, and odd pleasures of an unrooted life form the basis of one of the most compelling memoirs in recent years - a book in the tradition of Jo Ann Beard's The Boys of My Youth and Mary Karr's The Liars' Club.
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A famous writer describes her life growing up in foster care
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Mecca
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Johnny Frías has California in his blood. A descendant of the state’s indigenous people and Mexican settlers, he has Southern California’s forgotten towns and canyons in his soul. He spends his days as a highway patrolman pulling over speeders, ignoring their racist insults, and pushing past the trauma of his rookie year, when he killed a man assaulting a young woman named Bunny, who ran from the scene, leaving Johnny without a witness.
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Everything Hope knows about the Orchard House is from the stories of her late mother. So when she arrives at the northern Michigan family estate late one night with a terrible secret and her 10-year-old daughter in tow, she’s not sure if she’ll be welcomed or turned away with a shotgun by the aunt she has never met.
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Really Enjoyed It
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By: Molly Fader
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In a boarded-up house on a dead-end street at the edge of the wild Washington woods lives a family of three. A teenage girl who isn’t allowed outside, not after last time. A man who drinks alone in front of his TV, trying to ignore the gaps in his memory. And a house cat who loves napping and reading the Bible. An unspeakable secret binds them together, but when a new neighbor moves in next door, what is buried out among the birch trees may come back to haunt them all.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I can only listen in 1-2 hour segments!
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Everything about 15-year-old Cat's new town in rural Michigan is lonely and off-kilter until she meets her neighbor, the manic, beautiful, pill-popping Marlena. Cat, inexperienced and desperate for connection, is quickly lured into Marlena's orbit by little more than an arched eyebrow and a shake of white-blond hair. As the two girls turn the untamed landscape of their desolate small town into a kind of playground, Cat catalogues a litany of firsts - first drink, first cigarette, first kiss - while Marlena's habits harden and calcify.
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In 1995 Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, on a rare family vacation, seven-year-old Nainoa Flores falls overboard a cruise ship into the Pacific Ocean. When a shiver of sharks appears in the water, everyone fears for the worst. But instead, Noa is gingerly delivered to his mother in the jaws of a shark, marking his story as the stuff of legends. Nainoa’s family, struggling amidst the collapse of the sugarcane industry, hails his rescue as a sign of favor from ancient Hawaiian gods - a belief that appears validated after he exhibits puzzling new abilities.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Glad This Was Free
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The Ninth Metal
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The town of Northfall, Minnesota, will never be the same. Meteors cratered hardwood forests and annihilated homes, and among the wreckage a new metal was discovered. This “omnimetal” has properties that make it world-changing as an energy source…and a weapon. John Frontier returns for his sister’s wedding to find his family embroiled in a cutthroat war to control mineral rights and mining operations. His father rightly suspects foreign leaders and competing corporations of sabotage, but the greatest threat to his legacy might be the US government.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Everyone Will Enjoy This Except My Mother
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Five thousand years out of the Labyrinth, the Minotaur finds himself in the American South, living in a trailer park and working as a line cook at a steakhouse. No longer a devourer of human flesh, the Minotaur is a socially inept, lonely creature with very human needs. But over a two-week period, as his life dissolves into chaos, this broken and alienated immortal awakens to the possibility for happiness and to the capacity for love.
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2 out of 5 stars
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The author is a professor of English
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It’s been 17 years since the tragic summer the McAvoy sisters fell apart. Lindy, the wild one, left home, carved out a new life in the city, and never looked back. Delia, the sister who stayed, became a mother herself, raising her daughters and running the family shop in their small Ohio hometown on the shores of Lake Erie. But now, with their mother’s ailing health and a rebellious teenager to rein in, Delia has no choice but to welcome Lindy home.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story
- By Nessa on 09-25-23
By: Molly Fader
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Great Story, Questionable Narration
I struggled to get through this on audiobook and eventually gave-up and finished it on my Kindle. There is an a misplaced emotional tone to the narration that comes off like a child coming down from a tantrum, suppressing sobs with every sentence that feels extremely disconnected from the emotionally fractured protagonist. It’s extremely distracting and takes away from the cleverness of the prose.
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- Harry
- 06-25-19
Disappointed
I wanted to love this book so much. Reading the description I was sure it was going to be a new favorite. But I could not get into it. I even restarted it because I was spacing out a lot and still couldn’t get into it the second time.
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- Jennifer Sheehan
- 07-31-19
Unafraid Of Bad Moments
Arnett's story is powerful. Portraying the life of a girl in both dark and bright lights, Arnett gracefully melds the grotesque and beautiful into one. I strongly recommend this novel to readers looking for something new, hilarious, and painstakingly truthful. Vilinsky's reading threw me off at first but their emotion and androgynous tone lead to GREAT character voices.
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- Dishy K. Lemon
- 04-24-23
You need to keep an open mind for this one
this is the single most "hear me out" book I've ever read. the material is tough to swallow, but that's by design and it serves the story well. you're basically gonna have to just buckle up until the end. don't let anyone tell you this isn't a good book; it's a great book. is it fun? no, not at all, not even a little bit, but that's part of the point here
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- Amazon Customer
- 01-04-20
Awesome
This is a fascinating and moving story that captures the intricate nature of family relationships and learning how to let go.
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- Andy
- 04-29-20
Surprisingly Sweet
I enjoyed a lot of things about this book. To name a few:
1. It was queer without the entire storyline having to be about the drama of being queer.
2. It humanized imperfect people. I read, “Normal People,” earlier this year and it felt similar in this vein.
3. It humanized poor people. It explored the complexity of grief and human emotion.
I can’t wait to read more from Kristin Arnett..
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- Requiem
- 05-14-23
So good!!
Made me feel everything! Growing up and out of childhood and Queer trauma. I needed this book to exist. It’s raw and makes you feel those thick, sticky nights in Florida with how descriptive the author is. We’ll done!
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- Mrs whelehan
- 06-11-19
Unimpressed
Just really unimpressed and story kind hard to understand and felt there was no point to the story
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- Donna Skinner
- 07-23-19
Depressing and disappointing
I have trouble with the narrator. Her voice drops off at the end of a sentence so sometimes I couldn't hear what she was saying.
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- Carson
- 04-17-20
Difficult to get through
The story is pretty bland. I assumed this would be funny and it really wasn't, or at least it wasn't my type of humor. I felt like the stories of Brynn and her mother's suggestive animal poses were drawn out. I just didn't feel like there was a real story here. The description was more exciting than the book.
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