i’m looking for an adult fiction book with themes of childhood trauma and feminine rage. ideally, a book without a main love interest, or if there is a love interest, preferably another woman.
i’m looking for something dark and gritty. painful, even. i want to either feel like i’ve learned something or be so absolutely depressed at the end.
any recs?
by luraler0616
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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5203.She_s_Come_Undone
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46041199-kim-jiyoung-born-1982
Beloved by Toni Morrison for sure. Thank me later.
An enslaved mother murders her child to save her from a violent slave owner but the daughter returns eighteen years later as a semi-ghost.
One of the great books of all time.
[Such A Pretty Girl](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58570330-such-a-pretty-girl) by T. Greenwood is a good one I recently discovered. It’s a dual timeline book about a former childstar dealing with the aftereffects a leaked photo from her childhood while also showing her rise to fame on the 70s.
Possibly Sorrow and Bliss, but she does marry twice, but it is about her life long mental health journey and a childhood reveal.
“Little Star” by J. A. Lindqvist. Bear in mind it’s outright psychological horror.