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Themlyn

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Alison Rumfitt: Tell Me I'm Worthless (2021, Cipher Press)

A dark, unflinching haunted house novel that takes readers from the well of the literary …

Review of "Tell Me I'm Worthless" on 'Goodreads'

Antifascist purgation? Queercore catharsis? Parasocial trauma bonding?

Alison Rumfitt is a ruthless, and desperately needed, voice in our current wave of liberation struggle. Not since Susan Stryker's "My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix" have I been so thoroughly ravaged by a, devastatingly generous, offering of love and rage.

This book is a brutal blessing for the tormented — truly some unrepentant nourishment for an exasperated soul.