Luisa Freimuth

Recent grad Eleanore crawls into her roommate Gracie's bed, until Gracie spots an open sore on her stomach. Alone in the bathroom, Eleanore finally faces the would - and finds something squirming just under the skin, a parasite she must wrestle out of herself.

When her boyfriend suddenly ghosts her for days on end, Jane finds herself devastated and unable to take the advice of her friends. Jane rejects modernity and wallows in a feminine melancholy.