With Teeth, Kristen_Arnett’s new novel, is a story animated by and delighting in chaos—like watching a terrible Tinder date unfold across a restaurant.
Imagine a line of traffic slowing to gawk at a car crash: two banged-up vehicles hauled to the side of the interstate . Now imagine both cars are on fire. And add a juggling act in front of them. That’s roughly what it feels like to read, out this week from Riverhead Books. It’s a story animated by and delighting in chaos, like watching a terrible Tinder date unfold across a restaurant.
Samson is, in a word, a nightmare, at least through Sammie’s eyes. He’s uncommunicative, uncooperative, and often outright hostile. In one memorable early scene, Sammie leaves the room where she and Samson are working on a school project together and returns to find her child, the walls, the table, and the floor completely soaked in gold paint, his eyes looming out of the mess like a swamp goblin’s.
“They’re shared stories, and they become this narrative constructed with care by everybody taking part in it,” she continues. “Becoming an adult and trying to dismantle it, it’s fascinating because I’m unknitting the narrative structure that’s been formed.”in Miami Shores, Florida, where she observed the “messy slop of humanity” coming and going. “Not once, but twice, someone asked me for the gum out of my mouth,” she says.
Sammie was derived from that sense of too-closeness, layered with a queer partnership devoid of a community to belong to or a model to follow. Plus, “a lot of internalized grief and weirdness” that she doesn’t know how to process. And on top of all of that, she’s kind of a crappy person. “I think there’s value in seeing the level of toxicity that exists in queer marriages [and] queer parenthood,” Arnett says.
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