We Could Be Rats

With a unique format that I won't spoil, Emily Austin has woven a beautiful story about two very different sisters who grew up under less than ideal circumstances. She touched a lot on the despair and monotony of being stuck in your small hometown. Side note — this book made me cry TWICE and learning that Austin listened to the album Stick Season while writing it really made sense to me. As a queer woman also living (mostly against my will) in the conservative rural already I grew up in, I related to a lot of what Sigrid was feeling.

Deeply emotional, often funny, this is absolutely my favorite novel from Emily Austin so far.