The Bird's Nest
The Bird's Nest
Author: Shirley Jackson
Desc: Elizabeth is a demure twenty-three-year-old wiling her life away at a dull museum job living with her neurotic aunt and subsisting off her dead mother’s inheritance. When Elizabeth begins to suffer terrible migraines and backaches her aunt takes her to the doctor then to a psychiatrist. But slowly and with Jackson’s characteristic chill we learn that Elizabeth is not just one girl—but four separate self-destructive personalities. The Bird’s Nest Jackson’s third novel develops hallmarks of the horror master’s most unsettling work: tormented heroines riveting familial mysteries and a disquieting vision inside the human mind.