📚 Newbies: Whispers + human organs
OPEN WIDE by Jessica Gross
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Open Wide by Jessica Gross - available August 5, preorder now!
I couldn’t be more excited to share Jessica Gross’s sophomore novel, OPEN WIDE. Jessica was my classmate and a member of my graduate thesis group at The New School’s MFA program.
Her thesis project was her debut, HYSTERIA, and her next novel seems to be another romp through the female psyche, confronting sexuality and exploring physical desire, all with a lil sprinkle of Deliciously Weird.
Marie-Helene Bertino, author of BEAUTYLAND, says, “No one writes harrowing, wild, authentic, bordering-on-criminal obsession (love?) like Jessica Gross.”
Preorders are so important for authors and independent books! It boosts an author’s sales and helps bookstores curate their shelves. Anytime you can preorder a book, please do!
Here’s the full blurb:
“Olive is desperate to get close to Theo--really, really close. She's always struggled to connect with people. And now she's in her thirties, single, and so flustered by relationships that she secretly records her conversations, hoping to decipher social cues and find a way to be less alone.
Then Theo turns up for a shift at the same food pantry where she volunteers. He's a surgeon fascinated by human organs, a former soccer player, and possibly as weird as Olive. For the first time, someone seems to crave and understand her. Every recording of Theo is a balm, which just makes Olive more afraid of losing him. The only solution seems to be to bind him to her forever. Luckily, the gap between Theo's front teeth is just wide enough for something--or someone--to slip inside.
Arresting and immersive, Open Wide explores the complexities of intimacy, love and consent, as universal human impulses bleed into the surreal.”
Thank you Abrams Press for my gifted copy!
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