Sharp Objects: A Novel Paperback – July 31, 2007
Author: Visit Amazon’s Gillian Flynn Page | ISBN: 0307341550
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- Paperback: 254 pages
- Publisher: Broadway Books; Reprint edition (July 31, 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0307341550
- ISBN-13: 978-0307341556
- Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.6 x 8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #85 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #10 in Books > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Thrillers & Suspense > Psychological Thrillers
- #11 in Books > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Mystery > Women Sleuths
- #36 in Books > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Thrillers & Suspense > Suspense
I love a good psychological thriller with disturbingly flawed characters and this book did not disappoint. The main character is a woman struggling to make a life for herself, fleeing her childhood and really, fleeing her mother when she is sent back to her home town as an investigative reporter. She is tasked to report on the gruesome murders of two pre-teen girls, but in the process she gets put right back in the middle of her messed up family dynamics, her small town’s social structure, and a potential romance.Ms. Flynn nails perfectly small Midwest town life. A quote in her description of small town life,
“Like all rural towns, Wind Gap has an obsession with machinery. Most homes own a car and a half for every occupant, plus boats, Jet Skis, scooters, tractors, and among the elite of Wind Gap, golf cars, which younger kids without licenses use to whip around town.”
Ms. Flynn makes some disturbing observations about parenting and family life – and ties them in to premature death:
As to the death of a young girl, “it’s the only way to truly keep your child. Kids grow up, they forge more potent allegiances. They find a spouse or a lover. They will not be buried with you. The Keenes, however will remain the purest form of family. Underground.”
The situations described in this book are exceptional, but she breaks the image of small rural life as being ideal. Terrifying violence and dysfunction lurks beneath the surface and I have to say, she nailed it in terms of describing my small rural home town. As Flynn writes, the idealic quality of small towns is false. A question is – should people go home once they have fled extreme unhappiness? Can they go home and survive it emotionally?
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