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A gripping, emotional, and darkly funny queer horror novel about family trauma and possession, for fans of Rachel Harrison and Catriona Ward.
Single gay mom Brigid always thought that cutting ties with her extremist Catholic family was the best thing she could have done for her daughter, Dylan-and for herself. But when Dylan starts having terrifying fits of unnatural violence, Brigid can't shake her memories of a girl from her childhood who behaved the same way … until Brigid's uncle, Father Angus, performed an exorcism.
Convinced that her daughter is suffering from demonic possession, Brigid does the thing she told herself she'd never do: she goes home. Father Angus is the worst person she knows, but he's also the only person who can help her daughter.
But as Brigid starts to uncover secrets about Father Angus, that long-ago exorcism, and her family's past, she realizes that she and Dylan have never been in more danger.
This Is My Body is a piercing journey into religious trauma and childhood shame, building towards a heart-pounding twisty climax that will spin your head all the way around. Prologue
Part One - Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Part Two - Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Epilogue
"This Is My Body is simply one of the finest works of familial horror I have ever encountered. This book is hideously satisfying."
"A brutal, brilliant story of motherhood, memory, and religion, deviously simple and terribly clever. King-Miller has become one of my must-read authors."
"A cathartic tangle of love, rage, and religious trauma…King-Miller explores the fraught dynamics of mothers and daughters, bodily autonomy, and generational curses in an inventive possession tale unlike any you've read."
"A necessary and unique possession tale, This Is My Body looks religious trauma and queerness straight in the eye. Intense and gory! A great exploration of the spectrum of belief, both worldly and otherworldly."
"This Is My Body blends faith and body horror into a queer cosmic romp that would make any exorcist blush. In this fresh possession epic, a marriage made in hell between David Cronenberg and William Peter Blatty, Lindsay King-Miller discovers there are entire chasms left to be purified within the human soul."
"Heart-wrenching, propulsive, and always scare-the-fuck-out-of-you terrifying, This Is My Body expertly charts the endless interiors of pain and trauma to uncover the raw, screaming humanity waiting deep within. Lindsay King-Miller's latest is a vicious, unrelenting tour de force that will rip your guts clean out and show them to you. An absolute triumph."
"Gay, gory, and genuine-King-Miller uses her gift for lived-in characters and settings to effortlessly drag the reader through hell and out the other side."
"A queer, thorny, deeply satisfying novel about religious trauma, the horrors of parenting a middle schooler, the forked tongue of memory, and the dangers of trying to go home again. This Is My Body flips the conventional possession narrative on its head. You think you know what kind of story this is? Oh, sweet child-you have no idea."
"When I pick up a Lindsay King-Miller book, I know to clear my schedule for the night, because I won't want to stop turning the pages, nor stop underlining its sharp, musical prose."
Single gay mom Brigid always thought that cutting ties with her extremist Catholic family was the best thing she could have done for her daughter, Dylan-and for herself. But when Dylan starts having terrifying fits of unnatural violence, Brigid can't shake her memories of a girl from her childhood who behaved the same way … until Brigid's uncle, Father Angus, performed an exorcism.
Convinced that her daughter is suffering from demonic possession, Brigid does the thing she told herself she'd never do: she goes home. Father Angus is the worst person she knows, but he's also the only person who can help her daughter.
But as Brigid starts to uncover secrets about Father Angus, that long-ago exorcism, and her family's past, she realizes that she and Dylan have never been in more danger.
This Is My Body is a piercing journey into religious trauma and childhood shame, building towards a heart-pounding twisty climax that will spin your head all the way around. Prologue
Part One - Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Part Two - Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Epilogue
"This Is My Body is simply one of the finest works of familial horror I have ever encountered. This book is hideously satisfying."
"A brutal, brilliant story of motherhood, memory, and religion, deviously simple and terribly clever. King-Miller has become one of my must-read authors."
"A cathartic tangle of love, rage, and religious trauma…King-Miller explores the fraught dynamics of mothers and daughters, bodily autonomy, and generational curses in an inventive possession tale unlike any you've read."
"A necessary and unique possession tale, This Is My Body looks religious trauma and queerness straight in the eye. Intense and gory! A great exploration of the spectrum of belief, both worldly and otherworldly."
"This Is My Body blends faith and body horror into a queer cosmic romp that would make any exorcist blush. In this fresh possession epic, a marriage made in hell between David Cronenberg and William Peter Blatty, Lindsay King-Miller discovers there are entire chasms left to be purified within the human soul."
"Heart-wrenching, propulsive, and always scare-the-fuck-out-of-you terrifying, This Is My Body expertly charts the endless interiors of pain and trauma to uncover the raw, screaming humanity waiting deep within. Lindsay King-Miller's latest is a vicious, unrelenting tour de force that will rip your guts clean out and show them to you. An absolute triumph."
"Gay, gory, and genuine-King-Miller uses her gift for lived-in characters and settings to effortlessly drag the reader through hell and out the other side."
"A queer, thorny, deeply satisfying novel about religious trauma, the horrors of parenting a middle schooler, the forked tongue of memory, and the dangers of trying to go home again. This Is My Body flips the conventional possession narrative on its head. You think you know what kind of story this is? Oh, sweet child-you have no idea."
"When I pick up a Lindsay King-Miller book, I know to clear my schedule for the night, because I won't want to stop turning the pages, nor stop underlining its sharp, musical prose."