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Milk Teeth
Milk Teeth | Jessica Andrews
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From the author of the award-winning Saltwater comes a beautifully told love story set across England, France and Spain.A girl grows up in the north of England amid scarcity, precarity and the toxic culture of heroin chic, believing that she needs to make herself smaller to claim presence in the world.Years later, as a young woman with unattainable ideals, she meets someone who calls everything into question, and is forced to confront episodes from her past. Their relationship takes her from London to Barcelona and the precipice of a new life, full of sensuality. Yet she still feels an uneasiness. In the sticky Mediterranean heat, among tropical plants and secluded beaches, she must decide what form her adult life should take and learn how to feel deserving of love and care.Milk Teeth is a novel about the joy and terror of taking risks and a search for bodily autonomy. Through Jessica Andrews' vivid and lyrical
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VRM1975
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Loved this book so much

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BekaReid
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Apparently Seren also is protesting my reading time today 😂

CatLass007 Cats are the best, aren‘t they? My Molly hates it when I look at my phone screen. She doesn‘t mind if I‘m talking on the phone because I can pet her with both hands since it‘s on speakerphone. But if I‘m looking at my phone screen, she gets all huffy and walks away. 1y
CatLass007 My Tiberius has a completely different reaction. First he comes and rubs up against the phone. Usually the top right hand corner. Well they‘re not really corners, they‘re kind of rounded. Then if I don‘t put the phone down and start paying attention to him, he will put his head in between the phone and my face and touch my nose with his little cold, wet nose. It‘s totally sweet. My other two cats couldn‘t care less about the phone. 1y
BekaReid @CatLass007 haha! yes! My Edgar hates it when I look at the phone screen. He bites the corner and puts his head in between the screen and me! While Seren just looks away as if in disgust. They are both hilarious and the absolute best though! 1y
CatLass007 @BekaReid My kitties have been little life savers. 1y
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BekaReid
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Milk Teeth is a raw and intimate story of desire, but it's more than a love story. The central focus is the troubled relationship the protagonist has with herself. It considers the way we are taught to shrink ourselves, and how we can learn to take up space. This is a sensory story about desire, shame, bodies & food. It's sticky and authentic and shakily hopeful.

Soubhiville Terrific review! 2y
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BekaReid
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I'm drinking in Jessica Andrews' lyrical prose. I adore her writing with such a raw and authentic voice.

BookNAround Is that a Plufl? 2y
BekaReid @BookNAround It's a bean bag and a super comfy one at that, but a plufl sounds cozy 2y
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BekaReid
Milk Teeth | Jessica Andrews
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My top 3 reads from January:
-Public Library and Other Stories by Ali Smith
-Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors
-Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley

February hopefuls pictured, and I'm really looking forward to the tagged book since I absolutely loved Jessica Andrews' Saltwater.

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Twocougs
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Wow, I feel the female protagonist has a bit of every woman in her. The writing is stunning, the emotions are raw, one of my favorite books of 2022.