Go Ask Alice Part 2 with Carmen Maria Machado
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The Pill Is Harder to Get Than Drugs
This book righte as if there's no way out for hera, it meshes perfectly with adult paranoia. She has a little brother named tim who is like escorting her to the drug store and back so that she doesn't do any an drug related things. And again, like, mixed in we get these random moments of lucid commentary, like, i think i'm going to start taking the pill. It's a lot easier than worrying. I bet the pill is harder to get than drugs, which shows you how screwed up this world really is.
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