Cutting Teeth, Chandler Baker
Cutting Teeth, Chandler Baker
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Cutting Teeth
A Novel

Author: Chandler Baker

Narrator: Chandler Baker, January LaVoy

Unabridged: 11 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/18/2023


Synopsis

This program includes a bonus conversation between the author and Emma Rosenblum, author of Bad Summer People.

"LaVoy is a well-accomplished audio narrator across multiple genres, and most audiobook lovers will immediately recognize her virtuosic voice with its incisive tones. Here, for the large cast, she gives exceptional and distinct narration to each of the parents, teachers, cops, and children (even creating youthful and fang-induced lisps for some of the children). This narration is an immersive experience and the audio version is highly recommended."- Booklist (Starred Review)

“January LaVoy narrates, bringing the personalities of each mother alive for listeners. LaVoy also provides a variety of startlingly realistic children’s voices, which range from sweet and innocent to whining and ill-tempered.”- Library Journal

This audiobook is read by January LaVoy, Publishers Weekly Audiobook Narrator of the Year in 2013. She has also been nominated for 18 Audie Awards, receiving seven, and has garnered over three dozen AudioFile Earphones Awards.

At the Little Academy, mothers fret over their preschoolers, who have developed an unsettling medical syndrome. The children’s odd craving for blood is considered relatively benign (to everyone except their beleaguered moms) until a young teacher is found dead and the only potential witnesses are ten adorable 4-year-olds. Then it becomes clear that the police are looking at the children as not just witnesses, but also suspects…and they’re watching their mothers as well.

Darby, Mary Beth, and Freddie have very different parenting styles, though they’re united in their love for their children. They’re not thrilled about the biting episodes sweeping through the class, of course, and they’re coping to various degrees with the pressures of being a good mom, which suddenly seems to include, in addition to everything else, offering themselves up as sustenance.

Each of them was there at Little Academy the day of the murder, and as the police begin to look at them more closely, their children’s ability to bleed them dry is becoming not merely metaphorical. Exploring the standards society holds mothers to—along with the ones to which we hold ourselves—and the things no one ever tells you about becoming a parent, Cutting Teeth is a witty, original story of parental love that asks if there is anything a mother is not asked to sacrifice for their children.

A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books.

About Chandler Baker

Chandler Baker is the New York Times bestselling author of Whisper Network, a Reese’s Book Club pick, as well as the Good Morning America Book Club selection The Husbands. A former corporate lawyer, she lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband, two small children, and even smaller dog. Cutting Teeth is her third novel for adults.

About January LaVoy

January LaVoy has narrated the Sweet Valley Confidential series for Macmillan Audio, as well as The Snow Angel by Glenn Beck and Dreams of the Dead by Perri O’Shaughnessy.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ceecee on June 29, 2023

Behind every smile there is teeth, probably gritted as this is a book with plenty of bite, where you have to get past the veneer of lies to get to the tooth. Okay, got that out of my system! The focus of Chandler Baker’s latest novel is the seemingly perfect Little Academy preschool which the four-y......more

Goodreads review by Cassie on July 05, 2023

No one -- absolutely no one -- can write social commentary like Chandler Baker. With Whisper Network, then The Husbands, and now Cutting Teeth, Baker makes it clear that she has her pulse firmly on issues affecting modern women, and she explores those issues in the most fascinating, fun, feminist, a......more

Goodreads review by SVETLANA on August 06, 2023

The book is about mothers with 4-5-year-old children who are going to the Little Academy school Some children developed strange cravings for blood. Their teacher promises to discuss with them this matter, but on the same day she is found dead and only her small students are witnesses. Or are they th......more

Goodreads review by daniela on July 27, 2023

what can be creepier than super-thirsty toddlers, asks this fun dark ride, full of social commentary: I'd recommend the audiobook for the little voices. ;)......more

Goodreads review by Dallas on February 28, 2023

As I read CUTTING TEETH, the number one thought swirling through my head was: "At some point in the last year and a half, Chandler Baker rolled over in her bed one morning and declared: I'm going to write a book about vampiric four years olds that bite their parents and crave blood." And that just m......more