![]() ![]() ![]() My organs will fill up with mutant proteins, murderous fleets of malformed paper cranes, and I’ll drown in my own fucked-up biological destiny. They’re supposed to fold my proteins into clever little origami shapes, which they’ve been doing, mostly, but one day they’re going to go haywire and start churning out garbage. Alix Harrow uses a poetic, musical first-person present voice that leaves the reader heartbroken for both the protagonist and also every other character at every moment of this 128-page-long novella. Zinnia Gray is a dying girl who’s spent her life obsessed with Sleeping Beauty because being a cursed girl seems better than being a dying girl. I dare you to read A Spindle Splintered with a dry eye for a single page (you won’t, it’s impossible). ![]() Recommend: Yes, but be in the mood to cry 2021 Bingo squares: Found family, First person, Published in 2021 ![]()
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