The Grownup – Cannonball Read 17

Seeing how a hand carves out meaning with a pencil point lets us remember that the human touch is essential

Act of God by Jill Ciment

The Grownup by Gillian Flynn

The Vacationers by Emma Straub

Accident/A Day's News by Christa Wolf

Wigs on the Green by Nancy Mitford

And Now You can Go by Vendela Vida

Victory over Japan by Ellen Gilchrist

Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather

The Two of Them by Joanna Russ

June 26, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Act of God – 3/5 Stars This is a funny and odd little book by a writer I don’t really know, but as I did a little research into has been writing and publishing for a while. This book is told from an ever-shifting third person limited perspective following different women who are responding to a crisis they all share. Kat and her twin sister Edith are older twins living in the rent-controlled apartment that belonged to their late mother. Their mother was a famous […]

Easy money

March 9, 2017 by The Book Omnivore 2 Comments

The narrator in Gillian Flynn’s story ”The grownup” gives hand-jobs for a living. After developing carpal tunnel syndrome, she’s forced to switch to fortune telling. There, she meets Susan Burke, a rich, nervous woman, who comes to her with what seems to be an easy job: get rid of the bad vibes in the house she and her husband with their two children live in. Our narrator thinks that she has it made. She only has to pretend to perform some rituals, take a year […]

You Like Ghost Stories?

March 21, 2016 by Caitlin_D Leave a Comment

Thanks to George R.R. Martin, who asked me to write him a story. -acknowledgements Gillian Flynn wrote The Grownup as a short story to be published in George R.R. Martin’s Rouges anthology and it was later released as a stand alone novella. The story starts out as standard Gillian Flynn; an unnamed female narrator, who has a twisty past, finds herself stuck in the middle of a chilling battle between a mother, her step-son and a mysterious house. The Grownup could have benefits from another […]

Short tale by Flynn a worthwhile read

December 18, 2015 by TylerDFC Leave a Comment

The Grownup was originally published likely to fill the gap in new Gillian Flynn product a few years after Gone Girl released and Flynn has been preoccupied with various television outings,including the HBO adaptation of Utopia with David Fincher. The Grownup first appeared in a collection of short stories called Rogues last year, curated by George R.R. Martin. Another writer who does everything else short of writing his their next book. But I digress. Since Flynn stormed the charts with the brilliant Gone Girl there […]

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