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This book is wound tightly, like a body waiting for the blow to land, or to be delivered, and it is a deep, patient exploration of safety—and its opposite. The painting that inspired the novel is a foreboding, fugitive presence in the core story of this book, which is a journey back to a home that contains its own unravelling. A home, that for all the safety it promises, is a place of muted grief and guilt. The love at the heart of this book is careful, complicated and unsettling. This is a concise novel, full of unspoken things that drive acts of storytelling, betrayal and violence and in the end this book is a quiet, knotted, devastatingly timeless tale.
—Elizabeth Reeder, author of An Archive of HappinessPart fable, part coming-of-age novel, The Wounded Me follows a group of feral boys who have created their own (dys)topia in a forest. Their world begins to change when they encounter a mysterious bird child who becomes a profound reflection on otherness and the myriad ways we respond to it: with love, fear, curiosity, or cruelty. Atmospheric and deeply moving, The Wounded Me is a novel to be savoured and features one of the most unforgettable endings I have ever read.
—Defne Çizakça, author of Ansuz: Feminist Fairy TalesThe Wounded Me is that rare kind of novel that can be luminous and dark at the same time. Reading it is an experience akin to walking in a fairytale forest—not least because much of the novel action takes place in one: enchanting, exciting, tense, and ominous. Magic realism enmeshed with the brutal realities of a community of feral children built on trauma response and necessity creates a modern fable about community, belonging, and closeness, as well as power dynamics, abandonment, dissent, and rebellion. Powerful and unforgettable, The Wounded Me is a superbly crafted novel, a classic in the making.
—Ioulia Kolovou, author of The Stone Maidens
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