Cutting Teeth: A Novel
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"Jaw-dropping ... A darkly comic send-up of motherhood." --People
"With devourable writing and pitch-perfect humor, Cutting Teeth is a sharp, original, wickedly astute look at the sting of modern motherhood." --Ashley Audrain, New York Times bestselling author of The Push
New York Times bestselling author Chandler Baker's Cutting Teeth is a witty, thrilling story of parental love that asks: is there anything a mother won't do for her children?
Soon it becomes clear that the children are not just witnesses, but also suspects . . . and so are their mothers. As the police begin to look more closely, the children's ability to bleed their parents dry becomes deadly serious. Part murder mystery, part motherhood manifesto, Cutting Teeth explores the standards society holds mothers to--along with the ones to which we hold ourselves--and the things no one tells you about becoming a parent.
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This started off so strong with such potential. I hoped it had gone into a concept about how children are like blood sucking vampires to us mothers. I myself call my kids leeches. Or this could've been a fun child vampire story... unfortunately it was something else. It tried to explain how mothers would give their all for their children, to keep them healthy and protected at any cost. Yet the concept didn't become clear until this end.
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A Brooklyn playgroup plus their spouses and one nanny goes to Long Island for a short vacation together and drama ensues. Together the playgroup characters capture what it feels like to be a modern day parent in the urban United States: there is baby lust, difficult pregnancies, so much anxiety, a renegotiation in marriage, financial stresses, mom wars and jealousies, gender issues- both among parents and children- the whole deal. I don't think t...read more
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