A mouth like yours (Hardcover)

A mercilessly funny novel about love and obsession from the author of Caught Inside

Cassius Harper is beginning to worry. What kind of person, he wonders, would curse volcanically at spilled sugar? Or writhe with regret over the way he kissed a hostess good night? Is evidence not mounting that he is, in some important sense, a stranger to himself? Harper has always, in the past, believed love can make everything feel okay, and A Mouth Like Yours tells of his growing obsession with a charismatic and volatile femme fatale.

As his passion separates him from work, friends, family, and, finally, self, Harper tries to understand how he’s sunk so low—sifting through the myth he’s constructed about his parents’ own romance and struggling with the wobbly Northern California idyll he was raised to believe in. The story of a young man whose inner compass is spinning wildly, A Mouth Like Yours is a sad and exacting study of what love can do for us, and what it cannot.