Read The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw if you love mermaids, plague doctors, surgeons, fairy tales, retellings, mistellings, monsters, body horror, cults, motherhood, viscera, tenderness, revenge, snow, the horrors of existence, palimpsests & flesh.

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Read I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN by Jacqueline Harpman if you love unsolvable puzzles, stories of confinement, pared down prose, ambiguities, hypotheticals, counting, cruelty, tenderness, the unimaginable, daydreaming, intellectual pleasure, walking, companionship, and isolation.

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