Cutting Teeth

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"Timely and observant, Julia Fierro's debut feels like real life. She captures the anxiety of our times with the authority, insight—and humor—of lived experience."
TheAce of Miracles
^^ Cutting Teeth is for any reader seeking a tale rich in character, strong in voice, and filled with both incisive social critique and a luminous generosity of spirit, a rare combination indeed."
-Megan Abbotf, author ov Dare M.
"Funny, warm, and dead-on smart, Cutting Teeth reads like a conversation with your best friend, over wine, after the kids have been tucked in and the truth comes out."
"The airxieties and rivalries among four couples are deftly, wittily, and, at times, mercilessly captured in Julia Fierro's very engaging first novel, Cutting Teeth"
^Cutting Teeth's insightful, graceful voice carried me from beginning to end in one rush. JuUa Fierro's debut is compelling and infused with compassion."

"One of the most trenchant novels I've read in y&dirs—Cutting... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Advance Praise for

"Timely and observant, Julia Fierro's debut feels like real life. She captures the anxiety of our times with the authority, insight—and humor—of lived experience."
TheAce of Miracles
^^ Cutting Teeth is for any reader seeking a tale rich in character, strong in voice, and filled with both incisive social critique and a luminous generosity of spirit, a rare combination indeed."
-Megan Abbotf, author ov Dare M.
"Funny, warm, and dead-on smart, Cutting Teeth reads like a conversation with your best friend, over wine, after the kids have been tucked in and the truth comes out."
"The airxieties and rivalries among four couples are deftly, wittily, and, at times, mercilessly captured in Julia Fierro's very engaging first novel, Cutting Teeth"
^Cutting Teeth's insightful, graceful voice carried me from beginning to end in one rush. JuUa Fierro's debut is compelling and infused with compassion."

"One of the most trenchant novels I've read in y&dirs—Cutting Teeth holds a magnifying glass up to each of us so that we see ourselves more CT completely or bmn from the exposure.'
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"I'd read nearly fifty pages before I came up for breath—Catting Teeth reads as smoothly as a peanut butter sandwich with the crusts cut off." —EMMA Straub, tajwumovLAVRALAMONT^s Life in Pictures
ONE LATE-SUMMER WEEKEND, a group of thirtysomething couples gather at a shabby beach-house on the Long Island Sound, their young children in tow.
Nicole, the hostess, struggles to keep her OCD behaviors unnoticed. Stay-at-home dad Rip grapples with the reality that his careerist wife will likely deny him a second child, forcing him to disrupt the life he loves. Allie, one half of a two-mom family, can't stop imagining ditching her wife and kids in favor of her art. Tiffany, comfortable with her amazing body but not so comfortable in the upper-middle-class world the other characters were born into, flirts dangerously, and spars with her best friend, Leigh, ablue blood secretly facing financial ruin and dependent on the magical Tibetan nanny everyone else covets. Throughout the weekend, conflicts intensify and painful truths surface. Friendships and alliances crack, forcing the house party to confront a new order.
Cutting Teeth is about the complex dilemmas of early midlife—the vicissitudes of friendship, of romantic and familial love, and of sex. It's about class tension, status hunger, and the unease ofbeing in possession of life's greatest bounty while still wondering: Is this as good as it gets? And, perhaps most of all, Julia Fierro's warm and unpretentious debut explores the all-consuming love we feel for those we need most, and the sacrifice and compromise that underpins that love. Vissza