“This Family Isnt Nuclear Its Toxic”
Story line:
Camille Preaker is a journalist based on Chicago newspaper. Her boss Curry is very fond of her and always encourages her. Curry finds out that in Wind Gap Missouri there are killings taking place. One girl was abducted and killed and the second one went missing just now. So as it is Camille’s hometown he asks her to go and write up a story for the paper. Camille agrees and head back to her hometown where she has estranged relationship with her mother and has a step sister named Amma who is 13 now. She goes to investigate the crime and ends up entangled in her past and her present. Camille lost her sister when she was 13 years old on her birthday. Since then she has been avid cutter. She starts cutting her body with words and being popular starts casual sex. She is glad to have left her hometown. Coming back investigating the case of two murdered girl she unveils so many things about her past and her mother and that leads to uncovering the death of her sister.
My opinion:
The debut novel of Gillian Flynn is amazing. It describes how the mother has Münchausen syndrome by proxy and the dangers of it. Being unloved by her mother Camille starts cutting herself. How her teenage step sister is popular and is into drugs and is physically active. She rules the school and kids are afraid of her. Then the town people and how small town are on their own and don’t accept the outsiders. As the story unfolds more and more things come to limelight that makes Camille question her behaviour and her love and care for her little sister. A drug and party out with her sisters makes them close. But, really? The consequences of everything lies somewhere inside her. There is a twist in the end where the culprit is found but the last few pages clears that it was not the case and someone else is responsible for the crime. How humans can be deceiving. How much attention does one want? How far can you go to feel the pain? How much can you take?
Reading the book made me question does it run in the family? Does your behaviour towards others is a form of feeling good yourself or you are doing something that your mom did? Sometimes you know deep inside something is wrong and you tend to not accept them coz accepting them can make you face the truth and slap reality across your face. It will only make you realize you were blind eye towards some facts.
I have read gone girl (got the book in Delhi during my trip not knowing it was going to be adapted into a movie). The neon orange color and the summary at the back appealed me. This book got it few days back along with Dark Places. Wanted to read this as its her debut novel. Awesome and simple read.
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