Mostly Dead Things

Kristen Arnett

earliest edition we have, 2019 Tin House Books, 2019 hardcover 356 pages

"One morning, Jessa-Lynn Morton walks into the family taxidermy shop to find that her father has committed suicide, right there on one of the metal tables. Shocked and grieving, Jessa steps up to manage the failing business, while the rest of the Morton family crumbles. Her mother starts sneaking into the shop to make aggressively lewd art with the taxidermied animals. Her brother Milo withdraws, struggling to functi...

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Editions we hold

Mostly Dead Things edition · 2021 · Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 368 pages · 9781472155450
Mostly Dead Things edition · 2020 · Tin House Books, LLC · 354 pages · 9781947793316
Mostly Dead Things edition · 2020 · Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 368 pages · 9781472155436
Mostly Dead Things hardcover · 2019 · Tin House Books · 356 pages · 9781947793309
Mostly Dead Things edition · 2019 · Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 368 pages · 9781472155443
Mostly Dead Things audiobook · 2019 · Blackstone Publishing · 1 pages · 9781982671600

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