Mostly Dead Things

"Florida librarian and author Kristen Arnett’s debut novel is everything I hoped it would be – and more. Narrator Jessa, a queer woman with a complicated romantic history involving her brother’s wife, is trying to keep her father’s taxidermy business afloat after he dies by suicide, while her mom plans to mount a gallery exhibition using the stuffed (as in dead, not plush) animals in her sexually explicit art. Determined to stop her, Jessa is constantly sidetracked by dating the gallery owner, struggling to keep a handle on her niece and nephew and learning to live with her father’s death."