Daniel Handler

Tolstoy wrote that happy families are alike and that each unhappy family is unhappy in a different way.In Watch Your Mouth, Daniel Handler takes "different" to a whole new level....

A Novel

Watch Your Mouth

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Our story begins in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where, the guidebooks would have it, "geography demanded a city." As if rich river- soaked land wanted nothing better than a bunch of greyed-out buildings dumped on it

"Joe, if you're really in danger of hurting someone, even your- self, I can't in good conscience let you go."

"—to a costume party," I finished for her.

I looked out at the moon, a perfect postcard circle. "I'm so far from help that the light from help would take a million years to reach me"

everything is re-edited; you know you heard it in the overture but you still didn't expect it in the finale.

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