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A review by inuyasha
A Good Happy Girl by Marissa Higgins
4.0
sorry to all the people who hated this and thought it was weird/upsetting but i too would chug cough syrup and pretend to be sick so a woman i'm dating would dote on me. you wouldn't get it.
did not think this would book would affect me until i was reading the final chapter and realized i was crying?? i don't know. sometimes things are so horribly, awfully close to you that it feels embarrassing to sing its praises. saw a few people call this the lesbian otessa moshfegh and like, i guess, but at least helen's mental illness felt real, tangible - whereas stuff like my year of rest and relaxation feels like depression as a product, a commodity, an aesthetic.
the way helen plays the push-and-pull game with people in her life out of a desperate craving for intimacy while also being terrified of the vulnerability of it all, the opening up and then forgetting what you said, the purposefully fucking up your life so you can feel like you're spiraling from something you're in control over. GOD. whatever. sad girl lit fic you finally fucking won!!
did not think this would book would affect me until i was reading the final chapter and realized i was crying?? i don't know. sometimes things are so horribly, awfully close to you that it feels embarrassing to sing its praises. saw a few people call this the lesbian otessa moshfegh and like, i guess, but at least helen's mental illness felt real, tangible - whereas stuff like my year of rest and relaxation feels like depression as a product, a commodity, an aesthetic.
the way helen plays the push-and-pull game with people in her life out of a desperate craving for intimacy while also being terrified of the vulnerability of it all, the opening up and then forgetting what you said, the purposefully fucking up your life so you can feel like you're spiraling from something you're in control over. GOD. whatever. sad girl lit fic you finally fucking won!!