are you ready for the literary event of the year, Veeky Forums?
>Darcie Wilder's literally show me a healthy person is a careful confession soaking in saltwater, a size B control top jet black pantyhose dragged over a skinned knee and slipped into unlaced doc martens. Blurring the lines of the written word, literally show me a healthy person is a portrait of a young girl, or woman, or something; grappling with the immediate and seemingly endless urge to document and describe herself and the world around her. Dealing with the aftermath of her mother's death, her father's neglect, and the chaotic unspoken expectations around her, this novel is a beating heart at the intersection of literature, poetry, and the internet. Darcie Wilder elevates and applies direct pressure, but the wound never stops bleeding.
excerpts:
>in third grade when everyone cool had glasses like arthur from arthur i faked having bad eyesight at the eye doctor's but i wanted to be sure that they thought my eyes were bad enough to need glasses so i said i couldn't see colors and they stopped the test and i had to wait in the waiting room and my mom went to cry in the bathroom and they guilted me into confessing the truth and i had to retake the whole test and then they dilated my pupils so i really couldnt see and it was so scary and they gave me fake glasses that i was too ashamed to ever actually wear and now my mom is dead and i have astigmatisms
>grammar question: do you wake up "with terror" or "in terror"?
>what if banks was yahe mommy and you have to vosit and say i love you and then have to one day bury
more: nytyrant.com
praise:
>"Darcie Wilder's literally show me a healthy person is a book of aphorisms and short texts in the vein of Fernando Pessoa, if Pessoa grew up on Blink-182, found his voice on Twitter and had cum in his tights. Like the internet, what at first appears fragmented and tethered to fleeting moments of pop, builds movingly into a more timeless narrative of death, love, longing and disappointment that flows between all of us."
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today
>"literally show me a healthy person reads like the schizo-monologue of a young, wired maniacwho's given up trying to figure out where and why the fuck they are, why anything is what it is, why anything. In here, all rules are off, all time is broken, and all ideas are drugs. Who the hell writes like this about daily life? Darcie Wilder does."
— Blake Butler, 300,000,000
>"This book is what they have you drink so that you'll throw up all the poison. Or it's just more, better poison. I don't know, I'm not a doctor."
— DVS, rapper