Baby Teeth

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When the doctor told her mother Suzette that yet another CT scan had turned up no physical reasons for the developmental delay, he suggested that she and her husband Alex should consider consulting a child psychologist. Most free hours are spent crocheting with my cat (in his presence - he sadly does not crochet), reading, and writing reviews. She is the fierce protector of her five-year-old brother, Robin, and the parent to her mother, Star, a single mom incapable of taking care of herself, let alone her two kids. we need to talk about, the nihilistic diners from *The Dinner,* Isaac from *The Children of the Corn,* a sample of some of the comparisons readers are relating to Baby Teeth's enfant terrible, 7 yr.

With the unwanted media attention now surrounding her, it's only a matter of time before someone from her long hidden past recognizes her and destroys the new life she's worked so hard to build, along with any chance of a future. I went into Baby Teeth thinking maybe the child was going to be a little disruptive and it was going to be hard for the mother to cope with her. It’s normal sadomasochistic urges and fantasies that everyone has a certain degree of — the desire to think about or imagine hurting or being hurt — combined with normal exhibitionist and voyeuristic feelings, the interest in what is hidden and secret. I found myself frustrated with some of the parenting decisions, but even so it was impossible not to feel for these people.Following the clue up into the eaves, the couple make a gruesome discovery: their home was once a real-life murder house, with the evidence still concealed within the four walls.

It’s no different than the Romans and gladiators and feeding them to the lions and everyone watching in the Colosseum. Suzette is double-cursed by a past history of traumatic parenting–her own mother was a hyper-critical, dismissive narcissist–and a traumatic illness, Crohn’s disease, which she manages through surgical intervention and medication.

The only thing that really saves it is the Audible narration, which kept me invested, if for no other reason than to hear someone tell me a story while gardening. Through Suzette’s eyes, Hanna is a tiny sociopath who hides her bad behavior for Daddy and unleashes her full fury on Mommy at every opportunity. Estranged from her own mother, Suzette is determined to raise her beautiful daughter with the love, care, and support she was denied. Baby Teethis another novel I kept seeing at the library and floating across my facebook feed in various bookworm groups. The POV characters in Baby Teeth are Suzette and Hanna Jensen, a young mother and her seven-year-old daughter, whose narratives alternate to tell one story.