Status Updates From Hangsaman

Dad and Daughter versus Mother pisses me off to no end and Shirley Jackson has written it so well that it is triggering. It’s Shirley Jackson so I’m obviously already captivated by how she writes even the most mundane of human interactions.

“Somewhere in the world trees were growing, Natalie thought as she walked down the hall of the house where she now lived; her feet on the linoleum floor made a flat sound, as of one walking upon dead earth.”