Been reading Motherthing and liked how the MC was really weird and mad but such a sweetheart (keep in mind I haven’t finished it) Any other characters like this because all “insane” leads end up being murderers, who’s insane but good? Room by Emma Donoghue also had this vibe
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Nightbitch
The Push
My Murder
(Seemingly unhinged moms, not murderers)
The Soulmate by Sally Hepworth might qualify
Doctorow’s “Eastern Standard Tribe”
Trigger alert for threatened pencil self-lobotomy
I don;t know if this counts as a “book,” but there is a fairly compact finished manga series called “Homunculus” that seems to fit the bill a little?
I mean he kills a lot, but they are monsters.
Probably. Maybe – if his narration is to be believed.
Maybe Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine? She didn’t kill anyone but she’s a bit unhinged but she’s not a bad person.