Hard Mouth - Amanda Goldblatt
Category: General Fiction
Tags: General Fiction
An astute, luminous examination of the complexities of love and grief, with never a careless word. Hard Mouth is a blazing feat of a book. R. O. Kwon, author of The Incendiaries, An adventure novel upended by grief and propelled by the aberrant charm of its narrator, Hard Mouth is an unforgettable debut that explores what it takes to both existentially and literally survive., For ten years, Dennys father has battled cancer. The drawn-out loss has forged her into a dazed, antisocial young woman. On the clock, she works as a lab tech, readying fruit flies for experimentation. In her spare time, only her parents, an aggressively kind best friend, and her blowhard imaginary pal Genewho she knows isnt realornament her stale days in the D.C. suburbs., Now her fathers cancer is back for a third time, and hes rejecting treatment. Dennys transgressive reaction is to flee. She begins to dismantle her life, constructing in its place the fantasy of perfect detachment. Unsure whether the impulse is
