Dangerous Women in Rebecca Baum’s The Brood (Review)

by Mary Thaler

Thank you to @mary.thaler for her review of THE BROOD in @cosmos.coop ‘s METAPSYCHOSIS - Journal of Consciousness, Literature, and Art. Excerpt below.

“It’s a dangerous world to be a woman in Rebecca Baum’s The Brood—but the predators aren’t the male characters . . . Instead, the shocking power of this tale comes from an utter breakdown of female solidarity, as women characters exploit, denigrate, abuse, and wreak violence on one another. The novel embodies an often-neglected corollary of writing strong, compelling female characters—not, as it’s sometimes envisioned, as a kind of writerly public service that aims to create positive role models, but truly allowing women to occupy their place on the full spectrum of Good and Evil.” Read the full piece.

🪲 THE BROOD is a feminist body horror with elements of ecohorror, a dash of folk horror, and a slew of periodical cicadas. Order here.

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