Freezer Burn

I'm now more aware of other literature in that realm, especially specifically the kind of, you know, other works that deal with like freak shows and that world like Nightmare Alley is obviously one of the other great examples.

Joe Lansdale has a book called Freezer Burn that's also set in that kind of world.

And having never really interacted with that stuff in a kind of fictional through a fictional lens, much less obviously of somebody who's such like a. just incredible writer her work is so sharp and strange and poetic and beautiful and sad um and like everything that book like encapsulates every part of being human uh in a way that's never overly sentimental but also isn't cynical this is very human i don't know um yeah it's that book really does feel like the human condition the book um in all of our like grotesqueries and failures and hopes.

I don't know.