Cutting Teeth, Julia Fierro
Cutting Teeth, Julia Fierro
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Cutting Teeth

Author: Julia Fierro

Narrator: Xe Sands

Unabridged: 10 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/30/2014


Synopsis

Cutting Teeth takes place one late-summer weekend as a group of thirty-something couples gather at a shabby beach house on Long Island, 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. Allie, one half of a two-mom family, can't stop imagining ditching her wife and kids in favor of her art. Tiffany, uncomfortable in the upper-middle-class world the other characters were born into, flirts dangerously and spars with her best friend, Leigh, a blue blood secretly facing financial ruin.



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 of being in possession of life's greatest bounty while still wondering, is this as good as it gets?

About Julia Fierro

Julia Fierro is the author of the novels The Gypsy Moth Summer and Cutting Teeth. Her work has been published in The Millions, Poets & Writers, Buzzfeed, Glamour, and other publications, and she has been profiled in the Observer and the Economist. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Julia founded The Sackett Street Writers' Workshop in 2002, a creative home to more than 3,500 writers in NYC, Los Angeles, and online. SSWW was named "Best Writing Classes" by the Village Voice, Time Out NY, and "Best MFA-Alternative" by Poets & Writers. Julia lives in Brooklyn and Los Angeles.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Caeli on January 12, 2014

Finally, THE book that captures the complexity, intensity, and situational dilemmas of early mid-life. Set at a beach house at summer's end, CUTTING TEETH is, on the surface, about parenting young children and relating to other parents and to one's self. But it's more expansive and deeper than that,......more

Goodreads review by Edan on February 17, 2014

This is an enjoyable, thoughtful book, one that made me laugh and nod in acknowledgment (the description of watching a toddler poop is terrific and totally accurate! Ha.), and gnash my teeth at the characters' (believable) dysfunction. Fierro has created fallible, complex and even frustrating charac......more