More like a 4.5 due to my uncertainty with how disability is discussed at times, but that said: this is the most gripping horror novel I've read in a while, and it articulates some of my most potent fears in life in a way that made them disturbingly compelling. I almost said beautiful, but I can't. It also spoke to the Jewish anxiety that lives in me at all times, and made me feel a little less crazy.

For some less known comps: it's the New York City gothic and parenthood-as-horror beauty of Victor Lavalle's The Changeling merged with the unnerving but captivating setting of Only Murders In the Building and the there's-something-behind-that-door dread of Archive 81. Also, it's delightfully disgusting. Highly recommend.