Happy Friday everyone! I’ve got an awesome book called Cutting Teeth by Julia Fierro which is touring with TLC Book Tours right now to spotlight and hold a giveaway for so enjoy… I have to mention that I love this cover – this one would definitely stop me in my tracks and beg to be picked up and checked out!
CUTTING TEETH
Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press (May 13, 2014)
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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Praise for Cutting Teeth
“Entertaining, wise, heart-breaking at times, Cutting Teeth is an outstanding debut. Julia Fierro’s particular genius is her ability to understand and render the vagaries of the human heart.”~ Therese Anne Fowler, author of the bestselling Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
“Timely and observant, Julia Fierro’s debut feels like real life. She captures the anxiety of our times with the authority, insight—and humor—of lived experience.”~ Karen Thompson Walker, author of The Age of Miracles
“I fell in love with Cutting Teeth’s insightful, graceful voice, and a narrative that carried me from beginning to end in one rush. A compelling debut infused with compassion.”~ Jean Kwok, author of Girl in Translation
“Fierro’s first novel captures the complexity of forging new friendships and redefining lives as contemporary parents. Her characters are meticulously drawn, the situations emotionally charged. Readers, especially young parents, won’t be able to look away.” – BOOKLIST (April issue)
JULIA FIERRO
Julia Fierro’s debut novel, Cutting Teeth, was listed as one of the “Most Anticipated Books of 2014” by HuffPost Books, The Millions, Flavorwire, Brooklyn Magazine, and Marie Claire. Her work has been published, or is forthcoming, in Guernica, Ploughshares, Poets & Writers, Glamour, and other publications, and she has been profiled in the L Magazine, The Observer, and The Economist.
Author Links: Website, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest
GIVEAWAY DETAILS (US/Canada)
I have one copy of Cutting Teeth by Julia Fierro to share with my readers. To enter…
- For one entry leave a comment entering the giveaway.
- Tweet, share on Facebook, or blog for 2 extra entries.
Open to US/Canada
Draw Date June 14/14
Complex family stories are always interesting to me.
Ann
Love the cover also!
Sounds interesting. I love reading about complicated relationships!
This book has been getting a lot of buzz lately… I want to read it!
Sounds interesting!
A book that would be interesting and unique.
I’ve just read a review of this book in the newspaper and would love to read it. Thanks for the review and giveaway
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A book that cover’s all the different aspects of relationships. Definately something I want to read.
Sounds very interesting. Thank you for the giveaway. I tweeted @readsalways.
Sounds perfect for me.tweeted@rhondareads.
I love these kinds of stories.
This does sound very good, and very current too. Please enter my name in the draw. carlscott(at)prodigy(dot)net(dot)mx
I also tweeted a link: https://twitter.com/carlrscott/status/472512740829831168
Thanks!
I am intrigued!
I forgot to leave my email addy.
melback at cebridge dot net
I agree with you about the cover – it did grab my attention. The story sounds great too!
Stories of family relationships are usually quite interesting; I hope we can salute a debut author! Thanks for the giveaway! Marie
Just wanted to say that I finished Cutting Teeth last week and really enjoyed it….great summer read! My only complaint is that one of the story lines was left hanging!
The cover on Cutting Teeth is eye catching, and the story sounds interesting.
Thanks for featuring this book for the tour!
I have never read any books by this author, but it definitely sounds like an interesting and unusual read. Thanks for having the giveaway.
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I read a review of this one a couple weeks ago that piqued my interest. I’m still not sure it’s for me, but it’s one I will be waiting to hear more about from others before deciding.
This sounds interesting. I’d like to read it.
It is an interesting book Jennifer. Good luck in the giveaway!
I’ve heard good things about this one! Thanks for the review!
I shared this on my Contest and Freebies page
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I have heard a lot of good things about this book.
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