Sharp Objects

Sharp Objects

2006 • 290 pages

Ratings532

Average rating3.8

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Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family's Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims--a bit too strongly. Dogged by her own demons, she must unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past if she wants to get the story--and survive this homecoming.

Praise for Sharp Objects
"Nasty, addictive reading."--Chicago Tribune
"Skillful and disturbing."--Washington Post
"Darkly original . . . [a] riveting tale."--People

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