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Kittentits : A Novel - Holly Wilson

Kittentits

A Novel

By: Holly Wilson

Hardcover | 4 July 2024

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"Molly is one of the greatest young female characters I've had the luck of reading since I picked up Joy Williams's The Quick and the Dead back in 2000 . . . I TRULY LOVE THIS BOOK!!!!!!" -Gillian Flynn, Gillian Flynn Books

"Holly Wilson's Kittentits
is sacred and profane, filled with big emotions, all amplified by grief. Molly is a wholly unique and charismatic narrator, navigating (and creating) chaos as she seeks out a way to hold onto both the living and dead. This is a wildly funny and utterly convincing coming-of-age novel like nothing I've read before." -Kevin Wilson, author of Nothing to See Here

A feral, heart-busting, absurdist debut about Molly, a rambunctious and bawdy ten-year-old searching for friendship and ghosts.

It's 1992, and ten-year-old Molly is tired of living in the fire-rotted, nun-haunted House of Friends: a Semi-Cooperative Living Community of Peace Faith(s) in Action with her formerly blind dad and their grieving housemate Evelyn. But when twenty-three-year-old Jeanie, a dirt bike-riding ex-con with a shady past, moves in, she quickly becomes the object of Molly's adoration. She might treat Molly terribly, but they both have dead moms and potty mouths, so naturally Molly is the moth to Jeanie's scuzzy flame.

When Jeanie fakes her own death in a hot-air balloon accident, Molly runs away to Chicago with just a stolen credit card and a sweet pair of LA Gear Heatwaves to meet her pen pal Demarcus and hunt down Jeanie. What follows is a race to New Year's Eve, as Molly and Demarcus plan a s©ance to reunite with their lost moms in front of a live audience at the World's Fair.

A surrealist and bold take on the American coming-of-age novel, Holly Wilson's debut is about the interstices of loss, grief, and friendship.

Industry Reviews

"There's nothing predictable about this novel. And for this precise reason, Kittentits is nearly impossible to put down. . . . Wilson demonstrates exceptional artistry with the supporting characters, capturing the fundamental experiences of trust, friendship, love and loss. Their backstories, however improbable, will resonate with your personal yearnings. A bit deranged, a lot unforgettable, Kittentits needs to be your next literary escape." -Bookpage

"Holly Wilson's debut novel tells the electric, surreal, bonkers-in-the-best-way story of Molly-a 10-year-old girl living in a strange co-op in 1992 Illinois who forms an unexpected friendship with Jeanie, the 23-year-old woman who moves in after a prison stint. . . . For anyone with a high threshold for wackiness, it's a brilliant, wild ride." -Bustle

"A trash-talking 10-year-old girl who sees ghosts is our main character in this very promising coming-of-age story that is chock-full of absurdist elements. If you're a fan of bold writing, I think this debut will be for you!" -"Goodreads Editors' Picks for May Books"

"[A] surrealist, carnivalesque bildungsroman." - The Los Angeles Times

"Readers won't want to finish Wilson's debut-or leave Molly's world. Molly has one of the funniest internal monologues in literary fiction, with Wilson's genius dialogue to match. The invented World's Fair is a feat of massive imagination and a celebration of past fairs, Chicago lore, and 1990s culture. Cut the tethers of a hot-air balloon, visit a psychic in an iron lung, take a glass elevator to an underwater food court; laugh, cry, and be moved by this novel of great art." -Booklist, starred review

"Holly Wilson's Kittentits is sacred and profane, filled with big emotions, all amplified by grief. Molly is a wholly unique and charismatic narrator, navigating (and creating) chaos as she seeks out a way to hold onto both the living and dead. This is a wildly funny and utterly convincing coming-of-age novel like nothing I've read before." -Kevin Wilson, author of Nothing to See Here

"Kittentits is a bizarro wonderland of a book, a tasty kaleidoscopic freak show that will remind readers of a marvelously raunchy Katherine Dunn. The novel is just as much fun as it is juicy and disturbed-I enjoyed every wild and frenzied minute of it." -Kristen Arnett, New York Times bestselling author of With Teeth

"UNHINGED in all the best ways." -Samantha Irby, author of Quietly Hostile

"An invigorating read! A scorched-earth ghost story with a hell of a voice at its heart. Fans of Jen Beagin and Patricia Lockwood should read on. Fans of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, buzz off!" -Amelia Gray, author of Gutshot

"Holly Wilson has the stealth ability to make you laugh while breaking your heart. Reader beware: Kittentits may seem sweet, but she has claws." -Sarah Rose Etter, author of Ripe

"Part Cruddy, part otherworldly hellion parable, Holly Wilson's Kittentits is a comet ripping through a Walmart, a carnival ride launching into the sun. Molly's voice is raw and true, and this book is fun as shit. Kittentits is unforgettable." -Lindsay Hunter, author of Hot Springs Drive

"Molly is one of the greatest young female characters I've had the luck of reading since I picked up Joy Williams's The Quick and the Dead back in 2000 . . . I TRULY LOVE THIS BOOK!!!!!!" -Gillian Flynn, Gillian Flynn Books

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