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Virtual Event: Kristen Arnett
presenting
With Teeth:
A Novel
in conversation with ALISSA NUTTING
DateJun
5
Saturday
June 5, 2021 7:00 PM ET |
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Tickets
$32.00 (book and signed bookplate included)
$5 suggested - pay what you can
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Harvard Book Store, Politics and Prose, and Books & Books welcome KRISTEN ARNETT—author of the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling Mostly Dead Things—for a discussion of her latest, highly anticipated novel, With Teeth. She will be joined in conversation by ALISSA NUTTING, author of the acclaimed novels, Tampa and Made for Love.
Ticketing
There are two ticket options available for this event.
Admission Ticket- $32.00: Includes one admission link, one copy of With Teeth, and one bookplate signed by the author. US shipping also included. Books will be shipped to ticket-holders following the event. Please note: we are unable to ship internationally.
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Free RSVP Ticket: Includes one admission link. These tickets are limited in quantity.
About With Teeth
If she’s being honest, Sammie Lucas is scared of her son. Working from home in the close quarters of their Florida house, she lives with one wary eye peeled on Samson, a sullen, unknowable boy who resists her every attempt to bond with him. Uncertain in her own feelings about motherhood, she tries her best—driving, cleaning, cooking, prodding him to finish projects for school—while growing increasingly resentful of Monika, her confident but absent wife. As Samson grows from feral toddler to surly teenager, Sammie’s life begins to deteriorate into a mess of unruly behavior, and her struggle to create a picture-perfect queer family unravels. When her son’s hostility finally spills over into physical aggression, Sammie must confront her role in the mess—and the possibility that it will never be clean again.
Blending the warmth and wit of Arnett’s breakout hit, Mostly Dead Things, with a candid take on queer family dynamics, With Teeth is a thought-provoking portrait of the delicate fabric of family—and the many ways it can be torn apart.
Praise for With Teeth
“With Teeth is a wonderfully sticky novel about motherhood, partnership, sex, and love. Kristen Arnett lets her characters have the run of the place, and it’s delicious fun to watch them do, say, and think things they’ll regret.” —Emma Straub, author of All Adults Here
“A darkly funny, brutally honest story about a woman undone by motherhood. Kristen Arnett grapples with the big questions: Is any child essentially unlovable? What does a happy ending look like? With Teeth digs in deep and doesn’t let go. I truly loved it.” —Jennifer Weiner, bestselling author of Mrs. Everything and That Summer
“From the very wise, very funny Kristen Arnett, With Teeth is as exhilaratingly candid as it is morally complex. Three cheers for this enthralling new book, which affirms my status as a card-carrying, rip-roaring, lifelong admirer of Arnett’s writing.” —R.O. Kwon, author of The Incendiaries
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