A review by readingpicnic
One Hundred Demons by Lynda Barry

4.5

I picked this up after seeing the multimedia artforms on the cover and the chapter introductions, which I fell in love with. I would just stare at these chapter introduction pages for about five minutes each time I came to one to really soak them in. This was such a feral girlhood book, which I LIVE for. I also really appreciated how the topic of CSA was handled in such a thoughtful and honest way, as I almost never see it talked about in depth in books due to the shame that we associate with it. I had to write down the quote associated with her lack of memories (and avoidance/refusal to remember these memories) of it because it hit so close to home: "Especially because you don't remember that time, you can't forget it but you do remember never to remember it, the time when the shattering into pieces became a way of life."

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