Harvest Home 📖

Harvest Home

Tryon, Thomas
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literary fiction magical realism / rural gothic past tense first POV ~542 pp high worldbuilding

Vibe

oppressive folk-horror mysterious

A literary fiction. Expect rich worldbuilding, dense, literary prose, epic scope. Deeply introspective. Ends on an unresolved note. Contains notable violence, sexual content.

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Style Fingerprint

Prose density 75
sparsedense
Pacing 40
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 30
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 85
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 60
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 70
externalintrospective
Ending 10
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 80
intimateepic

Content

Violence 90%
noneextreme
Sexual content 60%
noneexplicit
Humor 20%
seriouscomedic
Romance 40%
nonecentral
Speculative hardness soft/vibes → hard sci-fi / rigorous magic

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count135,569
Page count~542 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVfirst