We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Fascinating story of how a fairy tale would look in the real world. Nice and twisted with quite good atmosphere and an unreliable narrator thrown in to boot (although the supposed twist was pretty obvious). But although the narrator stands out, I think her sister is the real fascination. Here is someone that is supposedly sane who never even really comments on her sister's obvious insanity and only seems to notice it when the awful cousin Charles points it out. So pink and white and in the end pretty much as crazy as her unwashed, schitzo sister. The only weakness in the book is the one dimensional Charles and townspeople (but even that goes away once you consider that merricat narrates the book). Overall very interesting fable that's even more interesting when you find out the author was agoraphobic too.