What to read this weekend: The unsettling new horror novel, Persona

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Overview

This book made my skin crawl, but I couldn’t put it down. Persona is an unsettling, at times horrifying, novel that explores identity, isolation, exploitation, and human connection under the warping influences of the internet and an economic system that leaves many people struggling just to get by. It reads like a nightmare, with prose that is surreal and disorienting at times, and uncomfortably descriptive at others.

It would be hard to get into much of an overview without spoiling key elements of the story, so here’s a bit of the blurb:

“A trans woman discovers pornography of herself she has no memory of making, only to find herself led to an unimaginably deeper evil.”

Persona plays out in four parts, getting progressively stranger as it unfolds. This is a must‑read, especially if you’re looking for queer horror, though you might want to line up something lighter for after.