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She Isn't Herself Tonight

by Hailey Piper

An expected return, an unexpected rupture

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Awards & Recognition

  • Critical praise

    Praise from Rachel Harrison: “blissfully twisted and genuinely heartfelt”

    Attributed praise describes the novel as “blissfully twisted and genuinely heartfelt.”

AlbakiReads Editorial

An expected return, an unexpected rupture

Rabbit has spent years anticipating another alien abduction, after experiences at ages ten and twenty. At thirty, though, a breakup and the loss of her home unsettle the routine she had built around that expectation. As her birthday nears without the aliens’ return, paranoia and strange bodily changes complicate her sense of what is happening—including her relationship with her own reflection. The novel brings psychological horror together with the aftermath of abandonment, using Rabbit’s uncertainty about the aliens to frame a broader struggle to feel anchored in her life.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in psychological horror involving alien abduction and bodily transformation.
  • Those drawn to stories about breakups, abandonment, and an unsettled sense of self.
  • Readers looking for horror centered on a protagonist’s growing paranoia and uncertain reality.

Themes

Alien abductionBreakup and abandonmentParanoia and uncertaintyBodily transformationIdentity and selfhood

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Book overview

From the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of Teeth and A Game in Yellow, a "blissfully twisted and genuinely heartfelt" (Rachel Harrison, New York Times bestselling author of Play Nice) literary horror novel following a young woman on the heels of a traumatic break-up as she anxiously awaits an impending alien abduction--perfect for readers of You Weren't Meant to Be Human and Our Wives Under the Sea.

When Rabbit was ten years old, she was abducted by aliens. Then, it happened again when she was twenty. Now thirty, she's ready for their next visit. What she isn't prepared for is her boyfriend callously ending their long-term relationship and ejecting her from their shared home.

As her birthday approaches, the aliens still haven't arrived. Rabbit descends into a spiral of growing paranoia and bizarre bodily transformations, until soon it seems that even her reflection has a mind of its own. With her only refuge being the chaos of strangers who might not have her best interests at heart, Rabbit worries that her ex's abandonment not only severed her from his life, but also from her own. Struggling to orient herself within a world growing more topsy-turvy by the day, Rabbit must regain control before her aliens at last return.
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