Tracy Lynne Oliver is a writer based in Los Angeles. She has been published online at a variety of places such as Medium, Fanzine, and Occulum. She co-authored the graphic novel, The Sacrifice of Darkness, with Roxane Gay. Her story, “This Weekend” was included in Best Microfiction 2019.
Her new book, Magician, is "dark magic debut novel featuring the Boy who becomes the Magician and the villainous Mother whose sadism might end it all."
At The Nerd Daily Oliver tagged seven notable bad mom books, including:
Sybil by Flora Rheta SchreiberRead about another title on the list.
“Sybil” released in 1973 was a book I found on one of my mom’s shelves of paperbacks one pre-pubescent summer day. Its cover depicting a sortof ‘mirror shattered’ image of a woman’s face drew me right to it.
The book is an accounting of the psychiatric treatments between Dr. Cornelia Wilbur and a patient referred to under the pseudonym, Sybil. It details horrific matriarchal abuse Sybil endured as a child which caused her to develop a multiple personality disorder. She supposedly had sixteen different personalities ranging from a young French girl, a baby and even two male identities. Its contents mesmerized me. I had never heard of such a thing. To think that a child could be abused so profoundly that her psyche divides to protect itself blew my mind. But by reading the book, and the descriptions of what she endured, it made perfect sense.
--Marshal Zeringue
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