Kittentits

"Molly is one of the greatest young female characters I"™ve had the luck of reading since I picked up Joy Williams"™s The Quick and the Dead back in 2000 . . I TRULY LOVE THIS BOOK!!!!!!" "”Gillian Flynn, Gillian Flynn Books"Holly Wilson"™s Kittentits is sacred and profane, filled with big emotions, all amplified by grief. Molly is a wholly unique and charismatic narrator, navigating (and creating) chaos as she seeks out a way to hold onto both the living and dead. This is a wildly funny and utterly convincing coming-of-age novel like nothing I"™ve read before. " "”Kevin Wilson, author of Nothing to See HereA feral, heart-busting, absurdist debut about Molly, a rambunctious and bawdy ten-year-old searching for friendship and ghosts. It"™s 1992, and ten-year-old Molly is tired of living in the fire-rotted, nun-haunted House of Friends: a Semi-Cooperative Living Community of Peace Faith(s) in Action with her formerly blind dad and their grieving housemate Evelyn. But when twenty-three-year-old Jeanie, a dirt bike"“riding ex-con with a shady past, moves in, she quickly becomes the object of Molly"™s adoration. She might treat Molly terribly, but they both have dead moms and potty mouths, so naturally Molly is the moth to Jeanie"™s scuzzy flame. When Jeanie fakes her own death in a hot-air balloon accident, Molly runs away to Chicago with just a stolen credit card and a sweet pair of LA Gear Heatwaves to meet her pen pal Demarcus and hunt down Jeanie. What follows is a race to New Year"™s Eve, as Molly and Demarcus plan a séance to reunite with their lost moms in front of a live audience at the World"™s Fair. A surrealist and bold take on the American coming-of-age novel, Holly Wilson"™s debut is about the interstices of loss, grief, and friendship.