Kristen Arnett shares 6 books that inspired her first novel

The award-winning author recommends works by Alexander Chee, Lisa Ko, and more

Kristen Arnett.
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Kristen Arnett is a LitHub columnist and author of Felt in the Jaw, an award-winning short-story collection. In her darkly comic first novel, Mostly Dead Things, a woman returns to her Florida hometown to help run a family taxidermy shop.

Edinburgh by Alexander Chee (2001).

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