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A chilling tale expertly told of the interior life of love, abuse, and the search for truth. Carmen Maria Machado challenges the reader to experience the struggle alongside her—of living with the pain and interpreting its place, in ways that consistently engages as much as it informs the reader.

An excellent book about creativity that is both practical and introspective. It delights in naming a creative life as a way of being, offering a view of living that supports what we might use the cliche to call both inspiration and perspiration.

It also reveals how shallow common teaching around creative arts can be. Highly recommend.