She was also the only person Jessa was ever in love with. Brynn was married to Jessa’s brother, Milo, at the time. At the same time, she’s mourning her lifelong best friend Brynn, who ran off a year ago with a man she met online. When Jessa’s father commits suicide in that same workshop, leaving a note addressed only to Jessa, she is forced to step up and take on the mess he leaves behind, both figuratively and literally. Right away, we begin to see what Jessa has been willing to do, ignore, and give up, all in an attempt to preserve or create the life she imagines for herself.
As the novel opens, we watch as narrator Jessa-Lynn Morton recalls her father teaching her taxidermy in his workshop.
I’m a sucker for a killer opening line, a killer opening scene, and I knew right away that I was in for something special. “How we slice the skin: Carefully, that’s a given.” So opens Mostly Dead Things, Kristen Arnett’s debut novel about Jessa-Lynn Morton, a grieving taxidermist living out a less-than-satisfying life with her dysfunctional extended family in Florida.
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