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St. Martin's Griffin
July 2015
On Sale: July 7, 2015
Featuring: Nicole
336 pages
ISBN: 1250068401
EAN: 9781250068408
Kindle: B00H6EFCNS
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One of the most anticipated debut novels of 2014, 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, forcing
him to disrupt the life he loves. Allie, one half of a
two-mom family, can't stop imagining ditching her wife and
kids in favor of her art. Tiffany, comfortable with her
amazing body but not so comfortable 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 and dependent on the
magical Tibetan nanny everyone else covets. Throughout the
weekend, conflicts intensify and painful truths surface.
Friendships and alliances crack, forcing the house party to
confront a new order.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? And, perhaps most of
all, Julia Fierro's warm and unpretentious debut explores
the all-consuming love we feel for those we need most, and
the sacrifice and compromise that underpins that love.
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