Shirley Jackson's third novel, a chilling descent into multiple personalities
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 motherтАЩs 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 JacksonтАЩs characteristic chill, we learn that Elizabeth is not just one girlтАФbut four separate, self-destructive personalities. The BirdтАЩs Nest, JacksonтАЩs third novel, develops hallmarks of the horror masterтАЩs most unsettling work: tormented heroines, riveting familial mysteries, and a disquieting vision inside the human mind.
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