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Shirley Jackson: We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback, 2006, Penguin Books)

Shirley Jackson’s beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family’s dark …

Took a while to fall into this one, but I'm glad I stuck with it. Somehow I expected more of a supernatural or at least fantastical element, maybe because the only other Jackson I was really familiar with is The Lottery. The twist/reveal/whatever you want to call it felt more like an acknowledgement of a truth we all realized, and I believe it was intended that way. Will stick with me for the depiction of a magical mindset, how intuitive and imaginative and sometimes poisonous (no pun intended) it can be. Odd feeling to be so immersed in a vastly different way of seeing the world.