We are Wormwood

By: Autumn Christian

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

"A beautifully crafted modern fairy tale journey through humanity’s bleak machine" Ever since she was a child Lily has been pursued by a demonic girl with wormwood eyes. As Lily grows into adulthood, she must deal with her schizophrenic mother’s decline into insanity, the death of a childhood love, and her disturbed adolescence where reality itself becomes unstasble, but must also confront the strange girl that haunts her. Yet Lily discovers that she’s being stalked by a creature much more dangerous than anything she’s ever encountered, and she needs the demon’s help to survive.

Body horror and ruminating

The prose is evocative. She’s a good writer. Narrated by AI.

Books about mental illness are fundamentally limited by the cliched and repetitive nature of mental illness. It’s not wild and creative, it’s the same type of bizarre over and over.