Messed-up families, scandalous love affairs, art, life, death and the great state of Florida in one delicious, darkly funny package. Kristen Arnett is wickedly talented and a wholly original voice -- Jami Attenberg Arnett possesses all the bravery her characters dream of. There's none of the shyness and self-consciousness of so much American fiction that masks itself as austerity. She writes comic set pieces to make you laugh, sex scenes to turn you on. The action flips from the past to the present, swimming through first love and first grief on a slick of red Kool-Aid and vodka, suntan oil and fruity lip gloss, easy and unforced. This book is my song of the summer. * New York Times * Hilarious, deeply morbid and full of heart * BuzzFeed * The novel explores love, life and death and is guaranteed to keep you gripped throughout * Mirror * Its humor is as dark and glinting as the black plastic eye of a taxidermy ferret * Nylon * The writing is subtle and meditative, with the tactile weight of dense fur . . . She takes taxidermy seriously as a craft, not just as a device; she makes it real and intimate . . . it gives readers a fresh way to think about fiction itself, which lives, or half lives, on the rippling cusp of the real * The New Yorker * A dark and oftentimes comedic tale of love and loss * Evening Standard * I don't think I've ever read a novel like it . . . Kristen Arnett is the queen of the Florida no one has ever told you about A gorgeously twisted story * Vanity Fair * Wonderful * Guardian * Florida's literary renaissance charges onward with this heartfelt, one-of-a-kind novel * Esquire *
