The Grownup

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Gillian Flynn s Edgar Award-winning homage to the classic ghost story, published for the first time as a standalone. A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. On a rainy April morning, she is reading auras at Spiritual Palms when Susan Burke walks in. A keen observer of human behavior, our unnamed narrator immediately diagnoses beautiful, rich Susan as an unhappy woman eager to give her lovely life a drama injection. However, when the "psychic" visits the eerie Victorian home that has been the source of Susan s terror and grief, she realizes she may not have to pretend to believe in ghosts anymore. Miles, Susan s teenage stepson, doesn t help matters with his disturbing manner and grisly imagination. The three are soon locked in a chilling battle to discover where the evil truly lurks and what, if anything, can be done to escape it. The Grownup,  which originally appeared as What Do You Do?  in George R. R. Martin s Rogues anthology, proves once again that Gillian Flynn is one of the world s most original and skilled voices in fiction. (Description from external book data)

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