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[american-dream-novel]

AMERICAN DREAM. — an intro

IF YOU LIKE: Bones & All (2022), t4t romance, horror as metaphor, I Saw The TV Glow (2024), Ethel Cain, Thelma & Louise, My Own Private Idaho (1991), butch4butch4butch, analyzing the impact of capitalism on queer bodies and communities, wondering what we owe ourselves and to those we love... READ ON!

genre: queer (specifically lesbian) horror, late-stage coming-of-age, litfic central themes: Cannibalism as a metaphor for love, for consumerism, for self-isolation, for dehumanization. The American Dream. The finding and losing yourself within capitalist society. content warnings: graphic violence (body horror), classism, depictions of transphobia & homophobia

In the twilight of their twenties, three childhood friends accidentally find each other and embark on the road trip of a lifetime. Each of them has a secret. Each of them has a reason why they're no longer friends. Each of them has something — or someone — they're running away from. Being together again for the first time in over ten years, Birdie, Judi, and Eddie are forced to confront the past as well as consider their future... if they are even able to have one.

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THE THROUPLE.

extensive information on each character should be available soon! i'm still working on formal intros for each :3

BIRDIE — 28, (she/her); left her cushy apartment in Manhattan after clumsily breaking up with her boyfriend of over ten years.

JUDI — 27, (she/her); whereabouts currently unknown. Last time anyone from home heard, she was whatever your grandma's stereotypical imaginings of a transwoman are.

EDDIE — 26, (he/they); impulsively robbed a grocery store, stole his aunt's Ford Focus, and now he's here.

image credits: top & bottom are by helenewate and middle image is by Justine Kurland from her book Girl Pictures