Friday, March 29, 2019

Emma In the Night

Book: Emma in the Night
Author: Wendy Walker

One night three years ago, the Tanner sisters disappeared: fifteen-year-old Cass and seventeen-year-old Emma. Three years later, Cass returns, without her sister Emma. Her story is one of kidnapping and betrayal, of a mysterious island where the two were held. But to forensic psychiatrist Dr. Abby Winter, something doesn't add up. Looking deep within this dysfunctional family Dr. Winter uncovers a life where boundaries were violated and a narcissistic parent held sway. And where one sister's return might just be the beginning of the crime.-Goodreads
Review: This was a thoroughly engaging psychological read and a reminder that abuse isn't always physical. The Tanner sisters disappeared years ago and Cass appears 3 years later with a seemingly crazy story involving kidnapping and a remote island. Is she telling the truth? 

A story is more than the recounting of events. The events are the sketch, the outline, but it is the colors and the landscape and the medium and the artist’s hand that make it what it is in the end.

The narcissist loves a child only as an extension of herself at first, and then as a loyal subject. So she will tend to the child only when it makes her feel good.


Grade: 4/5

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