Five second book review: Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

This is a disturbingly creepy short story. It is a superb, restrained and masterful piece of prose with an attuned aesthetic sense. The story is an intriguing portrait of mental illness and obsession.

It is a thoroughly absorbing reading experience that transports the reader deep into the mind of an unnamed young writer and mother who gradually slips into another reality.