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In 2016’s The Mandibles, she created a character whom she described as a “pure piss-take” of herself: belligerent, tactless, a maniacal exerciser–the Ur-Boomer, utterly self-absorbed and an unalloyed financial disaster for society.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 31, 2026

"Mandibles are like teeth but not only used to chew," Miner said.

From Science Daily • Nov. 13, 2025

Shriver is a journalist and an author, mostly recently of the novel The Mandibles.

From Time • Sep. 14, 2016

As ever, necessity is the mother of invention; when toilet paper runs out, the Mandibles devise a system of cloth “ass-napkins.”

From The New Yorker • Jun. 30, 2016

Mandibles, with twice as many pectinations between the first and second main teeth, as between the second and third teeth.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles