![]() ![]() With Teeth is an invitation to grab a bottle of cold beer and ride shotgun in a minivan full of self-sabotaging, irresistibly tender characters years before we’ll have enough distance to laugh at those traits in ourselves.Īrnett called me from her high-rise apartment in Miami, where we talked about her obsession with “lesbian domestic,” voyeurs of queerness, and Pet Sematary as craft. Like Mostly Dead Things, Arnett’s second book is darkly comic, and this is the real talent of Arnett she writes into discomfort until it becomes comedy. ![]() She understands that when we don’t see ourselves reflected in the people around us, how easily we can lose sight of who we are. It feels like a revelation that Arnett has written about the persistent need for queer community in all phases of life. ![]() As her wife Monika becomes increasingly unavailable, Sammie is left to navigate the world of queer parenting in a community devoid of queer spaces. The book opens with a terrifying event that plants a seed in protagonist Sammie’s mind, the fear that there’s something deeply wrong with her son. Whereas Arnett’s debut novel, Mostly Dead Things, lives in the weird world of Central Florida taxidermy as a metaphor for grief (yes, there’s a meme for this), With Teeth(Riverhead), her latest novel, is gay parenting as suburban lesbian gothic. From elevator conversations with her neighbors to fantasy bar names, she’s literary Twitter’s favorite gay dad. Anyone who follows Kristen Arnett on Twitter knows that she’s a dependable source of hilarity. ![]()
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