![]() ![]() She also becomes involved with the art dealer who showed up, fascinated by her mother’s work. The novel then works along three different timelines: her childhood with her father and learning the taxidermy trade and living in his presence, her adolescence being in love with, being with, losing, and dealing with the back and forth relationship with Brynn, and present day as her mother has decided to turn the leftover taxidermy artifacts into salacious animal art in sexual positions. She is in her thirties, has a brother a few years younger, an 18 year old nephew, a mother who’s connection with reality will become frayed, and she’s completely in love with her brother’s wife and the mother of her nephew, and always has been. We are dealing with our narrator Jessa-Lynn, who finds her father’s dead body in the family taxidermy shop. ![]() There’s a lot to the context of the story. ![]() This book has some clear strengths, and some unfortunate weaknesses. ![]() The most obvious connection would be to Karen Russell’s Swamplandia, a novel I really disliked, but by way of Harry Crews, a writer who I have mixed feelings about, but have enjoyed a few of his books. This novel was recently released and it reminds in some direct ways of other Florida writers. ![]()
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