Iris and the Dead by Miranda Schreiber

Iris and the Dead by Miranda Schreiber

Iris and the Dead is an aggressively good title, you know? Just incredible. It’s a complicated novel, too, full of twists and turns and despite what seems like it could be a fairly clearcut protagonist (our narrator, the writer of the story, a young woman looking back at an abusive therapy relationship when she was eighteen, following a period of atypical depression) versus a villain (the abuser, Iris, a therapist who is assigned to the narrator…