![]() ![]() It's not the theme park Florida or the posh suburb Florida or the beach Florida, it's the endlessly muggy, buggy Florida where everyone's behind on their bills and high school kids entertain themselves by drinking cheap beer until they feel brave enough to tease the gators in the local lake. She held the book launch for her first story collection, "Felt in the Jaw," at her neighborhood 7-Eleven, and that gives you a sense of the setting of this novel. ![]() The question of how the Mortons collapsed and whether they can rebuild themselves is the subject of Kristen Arnett's debut novel, the weird, funny and, in its own macabre way, warm-hearted "Mostly Dead Things."Īrnett, a librarian who lives in the Orlando area, is a widely published essayist, blogger and short-story writer. In a shop teeming with skillfully mounted critters of every kind, Dad teaches his craft to daughter Jessa: "Our heart," she says, "was in the curve of a well-rendered lip smoothed over painted teeth." But Jessa will lose her heart-to the same girl her brother, Milo, falls in love with, the beautiful and broken Brynn.īrynn will abandon them all, and later so will their father. The Mortons are just a typical family, a mom and dad and son and daughter and a couple of grandkids, living somewhere near Orlando, Fla. ![]()
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