#12 ~ The Bird's Nest

The Bird's Nest by Shirley Jackson is book #12.  It's a strange tale of a girl who has splintered into 4 different personalities.  It's  interesting and weird and hard to follow at times.  I'm sure it was very forward thinking in 1954 when so little was known about mental illness.  {It's strange to type that, because do we really know so very much more now?}
It would be an interesting book club read...there are many discussion points...like, what really happened to mother?  Was Auntie just as crazy at Elizabeth?  What happened with the father?


Words:
p10 ~  vacuity

having or showing a lack of thought or intelligence; mindless
p51 ~ singular

exceptionally good or great; remarkable

fl: Although the museum was well known to be a seat of enormous learning, its foundations had begun to sag. ll:"I know who I am," she said, and walked on with them, arm in arm, and laughing.