I'm drowning in my adoring fascination for this book. My jaw dropped from the artwork on page 2. And it only got more meaty and gorgeous from there. A graphic novel gothic complete with ghosts, sexual repression, hallucinations, and the most complex and open-to-interpretation ending I've perhaps ever come across in my life, Emily Carroll has created my newest obsession. I immediately ran to go purchase a copy so I can use post-it notes to annotate and try to connect all the strings of this intricate spider web of a tale.

If anyone wants to join in a riveting discussion of this book's themes of grief and homosexuality and motherhood and daughterhood and loneliness and try with all their might to try to make some sense of this, please hit me up.

CW: suicide (past), death of mother (past), death of sibling (past), murder, drowning, derealization/unreality, hallucinations, sexual content (vague, brief), blood & gore, violence