![]() The result is a triumph of transgressive queer horror. Rumfitt has points to make but she manages to narrowly avoid didacticism, tying the many elements of this powerful horror story together in an impressive ending that offers no easy answers. The impact of each escalating horror always lands in the reader’s heart, even if it first takes a detour through the stomach. Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt will be one of my favorite books of the year. When Ila contacts her again to suggest returning to the house and so closing the circle on their mutual trauma, Alice agrees-but will facing their fears really be enough to give the women their closure and push them toward forgiveness? Rumfitt swings for the fences with this inventive take on the haunted house novel, and she succeeds, maintaining the emotional core of the story even amid outrageous gore and graphic sexual violence. Watch me struggle for 9 mins to articulated why I love this book so muc. ![]() ![]() The horrific experience-which Alice shared with her former friends Ila, who’s since become wildly transphobic, and Hannah, who went into the house and never came out-has left Alice haunted by a pervasive, malevolent force that occasionally manifests itself as the racist lead singer of an ’80s pop band. Alice is a transgender camgirl in modern-day Britain whose life has grown ever more hopeless and claustrophobic after an incident at a haunted house three years before the start of the book. ![]() Rumfitt’s sharp and uncompromising debut explores queer identity, trauma, and the damage people cause one another amid an increasingly fascist society. Alison Rumfitt is a writer and semi-professional trans woman. ![]()
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