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Milk Teeth

Milk Teeth

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A sense of hunger and desire starts here, in her hometown, as she describes how she ‘wanted sensation, to go out in the world and let it rip through me’. In 2020 I read Saltwater and it’s sat with me ever since, its lyrical beauty has held me captive since reading and I’ve been craving more of Andrews’s painfully honest prose since I finished it. You held a flame between your fingers and I wanted to swallow you, but I was afraid of the taste of my own desire, like bleach and petrol, peaches dipped in salt. some aspects are reminiscent of saltwater, from the parental / child relationship to the distinct northern voice, but it feels like milk teeth goes further as andrews' wades into fears, darkness and uncharted territory without resolution. I do find this writing incredibly meaningless and annoying - it's Instagram writing, all style (poor, superficial style) and no substance at all.

This is for those with teen angst, those in first-love relationships, those surfing along the honeymoon waves, and everyone stuck in suburban sensationalism thinking they know and feel everything after watching a single Youtube video essay on internet culture. I loved the short chapters and the way they jumped around to show girlhood, teenagehood and young adulthood as a women in its entirety.I remember speaking to Jessica Andrews on a patchy phone connection from my living room in London one cold, dark January night in 2020. There’s a claustrophobia about the narrative effectively conveying her mental state, a self-absorption that accompanies her turmoil uncomfortably portrayed. Milk Teeth follows an unnamed young woman, restless and unable to define quite what she wants from life, who falls in love with a man who seems to want her as much as she wants him. It explores what happens when she is confronted with a relationship and an existence that allows her to unfurl, to be vulnerable, to grow into a space in which it is okay to feel hunger and sate it, okay to have needs and expect those needs to be met. Addressed in second person to the narrator's lover, the writing is gilded with a vulnerable immediacy, blisteringly honest and visceral.

written from a first-person perspective, andrews' use of the direct address, "you," symbolises a new leap in her work, as not only are we looking inward on the protagonist and her internal monologue, but we are also observing the people around her as the relationship progresses. HOW MANY LAVENDER SUNSETS< BURNT CITRUS CLOUDS< AVOCADO BRUISED SEAS AND VIOLET SKIES MUST WE ENDURE?A book hasn’t tugged on my heart like this since Open Water - if you’re a fan of Open Water then I can almost guarantee you’ll adore Milk Teeth as well. Something that feels greedy, rapacious, in its demand for both your attention and the full spectrum of your emotional intellect. Growing up, her father is abusive towards her mother, money something that is controlled, while her and her friends attempt to fit a constrictive beauty standard that’ll have them fold their sharp, jagged edges into a tiny box. on the surface, milk teeth is another novel that deploys the millennial concerns of miscommunication, toxicity and two people who simply do not belong together - yet andrews' take feels fresh, invited and magnetic. I thought I had chosen London as the place where I would make my own life, but its edges were sharp and cruel and I got caught on them, bloodying my ankles and wrists.

The descriptions of food are particularly memorable, emphasising the tensions between her appetite and what our narrator will allow herself.

there has never been an author so transformative whose work seems to encompass exactly where i am in my life and exactly what i need at the time. I would've definitely appreciated this when I was younger, but there's still a small part of my soft-grunge early internet self that appreciates works of art like this, style over substance, early Sofia Coppola films that erect emotions out of the mundane. It was so easy to just carry on and on with the reading until, before you know it, the final page has arrived.



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