You Make Yourself Another

<p>Who are you really? That is the question at the heart of Lucy Hannah Ryan's short story collection <em>You Make Yourself Another</em> a visceral tender and elusive meditation on transformation in its many guises. Named for an insult hurled at <em>Hamlet'</em>s Ophelia <em>You Make Yourself Another</em> blurs genre and gender lines to illuminate a state of sharp queer flux. From a girl whose illness has her slipping between the veil of life and death to a grieving model on the path of self-destruction from the mystery behind a teenager's disappearance to a woman's journey through bodily autonomy via strange metamorphosis this collection haunts and hollows in equal measure.</p><p><br></p>