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Girl A

A Novel
Pages
352
Published
2020
Language
English

Synopsis

Alexandra "Lex" Gracie was the first of seven siblings to escape their parents' house of horrors, where they were kept captive and abused. Years later, her mother dies in prison and leaves the now-derelict family home to Lex and her siblings.

Together with her sister Evie, Lex wants to turn it into something good — but that means confronting her six brothers and sisters, each of whom carries a different, incomplete account of their childhood and its aftermath.

Moving between the present and the decade-earlier events of their captivity, Girl A is a psychological family story about the alliances, betrayals, and secrets siblings keep from each other and from themselves.

How it reads

Prose complexity 7/10
Content warnings (2)
AbuseTrauma

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