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Girl A : a novel / Abigail Dean.
Lex Gracie doesn't want to think about her family. She doesn't want to think about growing up in her parents' House of Horrors. And she doesn't want to think about her identity as Girl A: the girl who escaped, the eldest sister who freed her older brother and four younger siblings. When her mother dies in prison and leaves Lex and her siblings the family home, she can't run from her past any longer. Together with her sister, Evie, Lex intends to turn the House of Horrors into a force for good. But first she must come to terms with her siblings - and with the childhood they shared.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593295847
- Physical Description: 344 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York, New York : Viking, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021
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| Subject: | Brothers and sisters > Fiction. Dysfunctional families > Fiction. Captivity > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Psychological fiction. Suspense fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Terrace Public Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Terrace Public Library | DEA (Text) | 35151001114164 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
"For readers of Room and Dear Edward, a propulsive and psychologically immersive novel about a young girl who escapes captivity--but not the secrets that shadow the rest of her life"-- - Baker & Taylor
Bequeathed the house from where she escaped her brutally abusive parents, eldest child Lex Gracie navigates complicated family loyalties in her efforts to renovate the property into a safe place for her traumatized siblings. A first novel. - Penguin Putnam
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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âPitch-perfect... Dean tells this story with such nuance and humanity, youâre desperate to step into its pages." âThe New York Times
âHeart-stopping psychological drama… A modern-day classic." âJeffery Deaver, New York Times bestselling author
âA gripping story about family dynamics and the nature of human psychology.â âGood Housekeeping
She thought she had escaped her past. But there are some things you canât outrun.
Lex Gracie doesn't want to think about her family. She doesn't want to think about growing up in her parents' House of Horrors. And she doesn't want to think about her identity as Girl A: the girl who escaped, the eldest sister who freed her older brother and four younger siblings. It's been easy enough to avoid her parents--her father never made it out of the House of Horrors he created, and her mother spent the rest of her life behind bars. But when her mother dies in prison and leaves Lex and her siblings the family home, she can't run from her past any longer. Together with her sister, Evie, Lex intends to turn the home into a force for good. But first she must come to terms with her siblings--and with the childhood they shared.
What begins as a propulsive tale of escape and survival becomes a gripping psychological family story about the shifting alliances and betrayals of sibling relationships--about the secrets our siblings keep, from themselves and each other. Who have each of these siblings become? How do their memories defy or galvanize Lex's own? As Lex pins each sibling down to agree to her family's final act, she discovers how potent the spell of their shared family mythology is, and who among them remains in its thrall and who has truly broken free.
For readers of Room and Sharp Objects, an absorbing and psychologically immersive novel about a young girl who escapes captivityâbut not the secrets that shadow the rest of her life.
