Almost Moon

ALICE SEBOLD

THE ALMOST MOON by alice sebold (fiction) i was struck dumb from the first line + dark, visceral, macabre + pulling back the curtain on a family’s unstable ties = 👌🏻
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“I would chase the animal that had wanted to murder my mother since my earliest age. Until today, I realized, it had been an innocent urge I carried inside me like a spleen, optional but always present, in some way part of the whole.”
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“My eyes staring back at me were small and black, and behind them was a room I’d avoided all my life.”
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