num_pages: 108
description: Dory wakes up in the padded room of a psychiatric hospital with no recollection of how she wound up there. She soon finds out shes been Blued-Paperedinvoluntarily committed. When she is sent to the wrong counseling group she discovers a whole new world of drug addicts shed never known existed. When she learns that those grotesque scars they all have are from cutting into their own bodies it makes her skin itch. Why do they do it?They get high off bone dust. They carve down to the bone then chisel and scrape until they get that free drug. When they realize Dorys never been dusted she becomes their target. After all dust from a Freshie is the most intense high and pain freefor the carver. By the end of that first meeting Dory is running scared afraid of being dusted though the psych. hospital staff doesnt believe a word she says. Shes delusionalat least thats what they tell her. They end up sending her to that same counseling group every day though Dory knows that all those junkie cutters want is whats inside of her and they wont give up until they get what theyre after.Like Girl Interrupted and The Yellow Wallpaper The Bone Cutters is one womans dark and surreal experience with a madness that is not necessarily her own.
language: English
title: The Bone Cutters
publisher: Eraserhead Press