Status Updates From La gente en los árboles

“It was with Owen that I shared my earliest, most fervent craving: that of leaving, of escape. I can’t remember ever articulating this desire specifically, but I can remember my sense, from my very early years, that life was not Indiana, and certainly not Lindon, and possibly not even America. Life was elsewhere, and it was frightening and vast and mountainous and uncomfortable.”

“Also, I have cut—judiciously— passages that I felt did not enrich the narrative or were not otherwise of any particular relevance; such deletions will not detract from the overall portrait Norton has painted of himself here.”

Girl who only reads vampire books, reading a non-vampire book: getting a lot of ‘Carmilla’ vibes from this…