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The Bird's Nest
by Shirley Jackson
🦇Gothic~272 pages
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Elizabeth Richmond is a quiet young woman working in a small-town museum, plagued by headaches, blackouts and letters she cannot explain. As the building around her cracks and subsides, so does she, and her exasperated aunt hands her over to a self-regarding doctor who begins a course of hypnosis. What emerges are several competing selves, each with her own voice, appetites and grudges, none willing to yield the body they share. Set in mid-century America and told in shifting perspectives, this is a mordantly funny, deeply uneasy study of identity, family control and the confident men who claim to cure women.
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