Tell Me I’m Worthless

How it reads

Tell Me I’m Worthless is horror (political horror, specifically), and its dominant mood is dark. It goes to difficult places and doesn't look away. The pace is moderate — neither a page-turner nor a slow burn — so it holds up whether you read it in long sittings or short ones.

It's set in a big city setting, in the present day, told in the third person across several viewpoints. Its central concerns are identity, power and politics and loss and grief. In weight it's heavy and literary — denser, more serious, and more demanding of you.

It stands alone, so there's nothing else you need to read first or after. The ending is left open, for you to argue about. At 264 pages it's a quick read. It's moderately known: read by plenty of people, but not a household name.