Weird Girl Fiction has become much more mainstream in recent years with a boom of feminist rage novels. These tales take the varnish off the female experience and present the visceral, violent, and complex inner worlds of women. Many reader point to 2021's novel Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder as a cornerstone of this genre. So, here are five other novels to read if you can’t get enough of these types of stories.
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“All Rob wanted was a normal life. She almost got it, too: a husband, two kids, a nice house in the suburbs. But Rob fears for her oldest daughter, Callie, who collects tiny bones and whispers to imaginary friends.”
Why read it? It’s told from both the mother’s POV and the daughter’s, upping the WTF factor.
Alan is a self-absorbed PhD candidate who is jealous of his wife’s attention to their young son. Doing research in an isolated Northern community will drive him to the brink.
Why read it? It’s as short read showing what happens when a silent woman has the last word.
“Before the nightmare, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary life. But when splintering, blood-soaked images start haunting her thoughts, she decides to purge her mind and renounce eating meat.”
Why read it? It depicts “a complete metamorphosis of both mind and body.”
“Placed on sabbatical from her dead-end job, photographer Irina is offered an exhibition at a fashionable London gallery, promising to revive her art career and offering an escape from her rut of drugs, alcohol, and extreme cinema. The news triggers a self-destructive tailspin…”
Why read it? For a spectacularly unreliable narrator.
“Miranda’s life is a waking nightmare. An accident left her with chronic back pain, a failed marriage, and a dependence on painkillers. Then she meets three strangers who have an eerie knowledge of Miranda’s past and a tantalizing promise for her future.”
Why read it? A protagonist that is both frustrating and sympathetic.
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