Shudder. This book gave me the heebie jeebies, right down to my very soul. Recommended by a student who picked it up off the HHT shelf, I had my reservations about reading it at all; I’m not very good with any story in which children die. It’s so gripping though that I couldn’t stop, even when I wanted to. It’s about a couple who strive to be totally perfect, but have a child they don’t want and ultimately end up killing. I don’t want to give more away than that. It’s incredibly well put together, with each chapter narrated by various people who knew the couple, and the couple themselves. (Mercifully the child itself doesn’t have a chapter of her own, although apparently the author came to the idea by writing a short story from the child’s point of view. I assume she decided it was just too graphic to include.) As you read you start to piece together who they were and how something so horrific could have taken place. Definitely worth reading.
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