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A review by breq
You Feel It Just Below the Ribs by Jeffrey Cranor, Janina Matthewson
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Terrifying and fascinating, and kept me guessing if it was an unreliable narrator, an unreliable annotator, both, or neither. I love this style of fake history/memoir with multiple people contributing. I choose to believe that the publisher/annotator's constant reinforcement that this is fake and made up and of COURSE defamatory and NO ONE should believe this is in fact a complete CYA and they in fact agree in many places with the narrator.
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Death of parent
Moderate: Pregnancy and War