![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Jessa’s brother Milo essentially checks out of his life, struggling to care for himself and his children. (One particular work features a photo of Libby’s deceased husband and a stuffed boar.) Her mother, Libby, takes to creating “art” that includes posing the shop’s taxidermy animals in sexually explicit positions, and the results are both hilarious and stomach-twisting. Jessa throws herself into her work, taking over the taxidermy business and longing to make her father proud-even posthumously. What follows is an engrossing exploration of grief, love and family, as the Mortons try to pick up the pieces after the death of their patriarch. ![]() The scene is a fittingly grotesque and unexpected opener for Mostly Dead Things, a morbid, inventive and darkly funny new novel by fiction writer and essayist Kristen Arnett. But when Jessa-Lynn Morton walks into her family’s taxidermy shop, she discovers that her father has killed himself on the very slab that they do their jobs on every day. ![]() It was supposed to be another normal day at work. ![]()
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