![]() Or, perhaps someone is telling the truth, but whom? A quick- read novella written with propulsive panache by the author of Gone Girl, the last few pages might seem a bit pat and twilight-zonish, but then again-who’s to know for sure? Often involving family, but not always, the following books feature main characters grounded in multi-generational situations-on both sides of the law.Ī sex worker turned fake psychic gets drawn into a creepy and dangerous tangle between father, mother and son in which nothing and no one are as they seem. Writing about Frannie and her family made me curious to read novels with characters from multiple generations, thinking of the diverse experiences and attitudes flowing from their different ages as a kind of framing device. But is it possible for the pain to be passed upward? We often read about generational trauma, when the pain of one generation is passed to the next. ![]() The accident and its aftermath have distorted the emotional shape of Frannie’s family, impacting her remaining grandchildren and her son in addition to the devastated Iris. Her granddaughter Bethany was killed by a drunk driver, and her daughter Iris was shattered. ![]() Frannie’s family has been marred by grief.
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