What happens when wanting a different life turns into an obsession with becoming someone else?
In this episode of The Literary Spiral, I sit down with author Leah Campbell to talk about her dark, unsettling weird-girl novel Sagebrush Baby and the deeply complicated woman at its center: Violet.
We dive into Violet’s obsession with motherhood, the fabricated identity she creates online, and the increasingly disturbing lengths she’ll go to make that fantasy real. Leah and I talk about performative motherhood, social media validation, jealousy, class and isolation, generational trauma, and the uncomfortable line between understanding a morally questionable woman and actually sympathizing with her.
If you love books about obsessive women, female rage, morally questionable characters, motherhood horror, psychological fiction, and protagonists who make one terrible decision after another, this conversation is for you.
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