Watch Your Mouth
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| Author | Daniel Handler |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publisher | Thomas Dunne Books |
| Released | July 2000 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 272 p. (hardback edition) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-312-20940-1 (hardback edition) |
Watch Your Mouth is a novel by Daniel Handler, which he has described as an “opera in book form”, about Joseph, a young student staying at the home of his girlfriend, Cynthia Glass, one summer.
[edit] Plot
The first part of the novel is laid out as an opera, with act and scene numbers as chapter titles and each of the characters being assigned a singing voice. Joseph quickly begins to suspect that Cynthia's entire family is engaging in incestuous behaviour, and that her mother, Mimi, is building a golem in the basement. The first part of the novel ends (operatically) in death. The second part is presented somewhat more conventionally, as Joseph attempts to recover from the events of the first part; this half of the book follows the form of a 12-step program.
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