When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn’t want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father’s academic career and her mother’s lifelong obsession with puppets and dolls. She doesn’t want to learn how to live without the two people who knew and loved her best in the world.
Most of all, she doesn’t want to deal with her brother, Mark, who never left their hometown, gets fired from one job after another, and resents her success. Unfortunately, she’ll need his help to get… Read more.
Trigger and Content Warnings
- Panic attack mentioned
- Alcohol consumption with implications of alcohol abuse, on- & off-page
- Pregnancy mentioned (prologue)
- Graphic body horror
- Detailed blood and injury depiction including eye trauma and an on-page arm amputation
- Surgery and medical treatment, off-page
- Hospitalisation, on-page
- Needles, on-page
- Grief and loss depiction (theme)
- Death of a mother and father in a car accident, off-page
- Death of a child from lockjaw mentioned
- Death of a child and brother from drowning mentioned including a near-drowning incident recounted
- Gun violence
- Physical assault including assault with a hammer
- Fire
- Loss of autonomy (possession)
- Animal attack (dog)
- Animal dead bodies and taxidermy discussed (squirrels)
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