I don’t mean a self-help book or anything, but something that was *so good* you couldn’t put it down for a second and got you so engrossed that it helped you completely forget about what was going on.
Preferably something that’s an easy but engaging read; I’d like something that hooks me but doesn’t have heavy/complicated worldbuilding because I just don’t the brain capacity to handle that right now. Thanks in advance ❤️
by Merry-Cherries
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*Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon.*
>Vern–seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was raised–flees for the shelter of the woods. There, she gives birth to twins, and plans to raise them far from the influence of the outside world.
>But even in the forest, Vern is a hunted woman. Forced to fight back against the community that refuses to let her go, she unleashes incredible brutality far beyond what a person should be capable of, her body wracked by inexplicable and uncanny changes.
>To understand her metamorphosis and to protect her small family, Vern has to face the past, and more troublingly, the future–outside the woods. Finding the truth will mean uncovering the secrets of the compound she fled but also the violent history in America that produced it.
We Have Always Lived In The Castle got me through the death of my mother this summer. We had a weird relationship.