The Bird's Nest

Shirley Jackson · 1954 CE · Novel · Modern / American · Contemporary

Elizabeth Richmond is twenty-three, files papers at a museum whose back wall has begun to crack open, and lives with an aunt who drinks. Headaches, lost evenings and a run of jeering anonymous letters bring her to a doctor delighted to find that more than one person answers to her name. Jackson took the clinical frame from Victorian dissociation case studies and split the telling between voices that each claim the story.

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