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'Tinfoil Butterfly' Spreads Twitchy, Monstrous Wings

Rachel Eve Moulton's story about a young woman and a mysterious not-a-boy, in an abandoned town in the Black Bills of South Dakota, will crawl into you and give you the shudders — just let it.
Source: Beth Novey

I love books that make me feel uncomfortable. I love books that crawl into an invisible space under my ribs and stay there like a twitching parasite. Rachel Eve Moulton's Tinfoil Butterfly did both. I don't know what her writing process was like, but if it resembled the way I read it, I can picture her bent over a desk in a dimly-lit room, typing away furiously while breathing the short, violent breaths of a scared animal.

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