The Grownup: A Story by the Author of Gone Girl
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Gillian Flynn's Edgar Award-winning homage to the classic ghost story, published for the first time as a standalone. A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. On a rainy April morning, she is reading auras at Spiritual Palms when Susan Burke walks in. A keen observer of human behavior, our unnamed narrator immediately diagnoses beautiful, rich Susan as an unhappy woman eager to give her lovely life a drama injection. However, when the "psychic" visits the eerie Victorian home that has been the source of Susan's terror and grief, she realizes she may not have to pretend to believe in ghosts anymore. Miles, Susan's teenage stepson, doesn't help matters with his disturbing manner and grisly imagination. The three are soon locked in a chilling battle to discover where the evil truly lurks and what, if anything, can be done to escape it. "The Grownup," which originally appeared as "What Do You Do?" in George R. R. Martin's Rogues anthology, proves once again that Gillian Flynn is one of the world's most original and skilled voices in fiction.
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What a strange story…
I’m not sure of what I just read so not sure how this book review will go. Wish me luck! For such a short story, it didn’t take long for the confusion of what I was reading to set it. I really couldn’t see where it was going, luckily it was over with quite quick. But in that time I was confused with the creepiness and wondering if this is a thriller or if something supernatural was about to happen.
The end is where it all ...read more
A quick (about an hour) audiobook I found on my iPod. Gillian Flynn is known for Gone Girl and if you've read that, you might know what to expect with this.
This starts off with a ....bang
“I DIDN’T STOP giving hand jobs because I wasn’t good at it. I stopped giving hand jobs because I was the best at it. "
A young woman, never named, works in the back room of a psychic giving handjobs but when carpel tunnel ruins that career she moves to the front ...read more
This starts off with a ....bang
“I DIDN’T STOP giving hand jobs because I wasn’t good at it. I stopped giving hand jobs because I was the best at it. "
A young woman, never named, works in the back room of a psychic giving handjobs but when carpel tunnel ruins that career she moves to the front ...read more
Really did not like most of the story but the ending was really interesting. Wonder which of the stories told was the truth.
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