Suzette Jensen manages chronic Crohn’s disease while raising her seven-year-old daughter, Hanna, who refuses to speak and exhibits increasingly violent behavior. Hanna views her mother as an obstacle to her father’s affection and orchestrates elaborate, dangerous traps to remove Suzette from the household. While Hanna maintains a facade of innocence for her father, Alex, Suzette struggles to document the child’s calculated cruelty. The narrative alternates between the perspectives of a mother fearing her own child and a young girl deploying sophisticated psychological warfare against her primary caregiver.
This psychological thriller targets readers interested in the collapse of the maternal bond and the darker possibilities of early childhood development. It appeals to those who enjoy stories about domestic isolation and the tension of unreliable family dynamics. Readers observe the friction between biological obligation and self-preservation, walking away with an unsettling look at how a child’s obsession can dismantle a marriage and a parent’s sanity. The book provides a clinical, cold focus on the frustration of being disbelieved by a spouse when facing an internal threat.
Practical, inward-looking, growth-minded and escapist; an easy read.
Best for readers like The Escapist Adventurer. Which reader are you?
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
