Hi yall, I loved La Batarde by Violet LeDuc and on the fiction side, Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector, or even Death Kit by Susan Sontag. I’m looking for books along the same vein, with a very microscopicly inward focus on the main character/authors inner emotional world that is fraught or complex.
Doesn’t have to be female, but I did relate to Lispector and LeDuc. James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s room feels similar to these for me as well for some reason.
Any recommendations are very welcome, even if they feel only tangential. I hope this isn’t too vague of a question. Thank you!
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is a difficult read but very well done. It’s the autobiography of abolitionist Harriet Jacobs, whose escape from slavery forced her to hide in the crawl space under her grandmother’s roof for seven years.