Girl A: The Sunday Times and New York Times global best seller, an astonishing new crime thriller debut novel from the biggest literary fiction voice of 2021

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Aggiungo anche che il racconto spesso parte per derive laterali che con la storia principale poco hanno a che fare: sembrano più che altro aggiungere folklore, colore pittoresco. Ma non sostanza. A captivity story usually ends with some serious action because the captivity usually ends in one form or another so you hold on trying to see how it all ends. This book however flips that old script on its head because it starts with the escape. With that being the case, the book had a very strong opening but had a much slower second half.

The story opens with Lex Gracie (Girl A) having been made executive of her mother’s will after her mother dies in prison. Lex and her siblings are infamous for unpleasant reasons: they were held captive in their home, abused and starved by their parents. Their father ended his own life when Lex escaped aged 15 and raised the alarm. Their mother ended up in prison. In The Literary Thriller 'Girl A,' Siblings Underestimate Their Childhood Ghosts". Bustle. 5 February 2021 . Retrieved 10 February 2021.E così la storia inizia davvero da quella che a prima vista sembrerebbe la fine: quando ragazza A riesce a scappare e la polizia arriva nella Casa degli orrori (destinata a diventare meta di turismo scandalistico) per liberare bambini e ragazzi, ecco quello è il vero principio della storia. This is as harrowing and haunting a book I have read since 2009 and Uwem Akpan's short story collection Say You're One of Them, set throughout sub-Saharan Africa. Edna O'Brien's Girl is the nominally fictional horror story of young girls enslaved by Boko Haram, the Islamic terrorist group that still holds sway in northeastern Nigeria. I think there are good intentions in the attempt and it did remind me of their plight, I googled what the current situation is (unsurprisingly, it's not good and I still feel helpless to do anything). Read it because it's long-listed on the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction and I'm trying to read more fiction set in countries outside my own.

Ma non ci credo: non credo ci si possa sedere a scrivere pianificando la strategia di marketing. Men che meno il primo libro. Similarly, the book seemed to be mostly about Lex wrestling with her memories and feelings about what happened, but if she was supposed to experience growth or revelation then that did not come across. We left her at the end in very much the same state as we found her. To be fair, that may have been what the author wanted, but it felt odd after the story seemed to be building toward something momentous. Breathtaking, remarkably intense, dark story of survivor girl who accomplished to escape from House of Horrors! Yes, he storyline already hooked me from the first chapter! The story is a slow reveal, and jumps in time between the past and present. The book is divided into sections that focus on each of the siblings as perceived by Lex. I thought this set-up worked very well, both as a look at family dynamics but also as a view into Lex’s damaged psyche.Ignorance of the author. There were a few examples but the glaring one I can think of is the fact that a lawyer wouldn’t know what an executor is. I know she was trying to explain it to the reader, but she could have found a more believable way to do so.