Books like Watch Your Mouth

I love Daniel Handler SO MUCH. The way he writes is so splendid, I can sometimes hardly stand it. And his plots are so twisted and twisty and bizarre and beautiful and DARK. And funny and clever and smutty and sly and just just just such a joy to read. Here is how I love him:Anyway so I obviously love this book to bits and pieces, let me count the ways. If you read the blurb you will know that it is: a meta-opera (sort of) about incest (maybe / maybe not) and Jewish mysticism (probably / possibly). It is also drenched in sex, slippery-wet with it, especially in the first half, just replete, completely. You will likely make this face through most of it (I certainly did):Like, omg, is he going to go th-- yes, yes he is. He did. Oh my.Okay, are you still with me? Let's get a little deeper (twss) into this brilliant disturbing little gem. Here we have the story of erstwhile Joseph, at the end of his senior year and in the first blush of his very sexually intense relationship with Cyn. For various reasons, Joseph is going to spend the summer in Pittsburgh living with Cyn and her family—dad is a recently disgraced osteopath, mom is a propsmistress for the local theatre where the whole season is antisemitic operas (on purpose! not in a racist way!), and brother is a scientist doing something with molecules and gold. What Joseph and Cyn are purportedly doing with their time is being camp counselors; what they are actually doing is a tremendous amount of acrobatic and voracious fucking, in that way the youngs do so well. The problems is (maybe) that all this fucking is going to Joseph's head, and he starts to believe that (view spoiler)[everyone in the family is also doing every bit as much fucking—with one another (hide spoiler)]