Cutting Teeth A Novel
Cutting Teeth by Chandler Baker, published by Flatiron Books on July 30, 2024, is a novel that delves into the complexities of motherhood through a darkly comedic lens. This 320-page book presents a narrative centered around three women—Darby, Mary Beth, and Rhea—who are navigating the challenges of their identities as they confront the demands of parenthood. As they attempt to reclaim their careers, relationships, and self-image, an unsettling medical condition at their children’s preschool complicates their lives, leading to unexpected and dramatic consequences.
Readers will find a blend of psychological thriller and domestic fiction as the story unfolds with a mysterious death and the involvement of four-year-olds as both witnesses and suspects. Cutting Teeth explores themes of family life and the societal expectations placed on mothers, highlighting the often-unspoken realities of parenting. This edition invites readers to reflect on the lengths to which mothers will go for their children, all while navigating the pressures of modern motherhood.
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“Jaw-dropping … A darkly comic send-up of motherhood.” —People
“With devourable writing and pitch-perfect humor, Cutting Teeth is a sharp, original, wickedly astute look at the sting of modern motherhood.” —Ashley Audrain, New York Times bestselling author of The Push
New York Times bestselling author Chandler Baker’s Cutting Teeth is a witty, thrilling story of parental love that asks: is there anything a mother won’t do for her children?
Darby, Mary Beth, and Rhea are on personal quests to reclaim aspects of their identities subsumed by motherhood—their careers, their sex lives, their bodies. But their children disrupt their plans when an unsettling medical condition begins to go around the Little Academy preschool: the kids are craving blood.
Then a young teacher is found dead, and the only potential witnesses are ten adorable four-year-olds.
Soon it becomes clear that the children are not just witnesses, but also suspects . . . and so are their mothers.
As the police begin to look more closely, the children’s ability to bleed their parents dry becomes deadly serious. Part murder mystery, part motherhood manifesto, Cutting Teeth explores the standards society holds mothers to—along with the ones to which we hold ourselves—and the things no one tells you about becoming a parent.
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