You Feel It Just Below the Ribs

You Feel It Just Below the Ribs

2021 • 352 pages

Ratings5

Average rating3.8

15

Off-putting (but never overwhelmingly so) alternative history/sci fi/horror thing. Def worth a read, will undoubtedly be checking out Within the Wires at some point.

A book which is either a memoir or a fictional construct is found and published with commentary from state censors/cultural critics. It consists of the experiences of the creator of a complex form of therapy developed in response to deeply rooted childhood traumas on a universal level. These traumas are the result of WWI not ending. The therapy is meant to erase the ties between parent and child, with the goal being to simultaneously wipe out any already existing childhood memories of trauma.

This was a complex and engaging piece of grounded sci-fi. Really dug it.

June 11, 2023