If you like horror stories, try this book. Not the bloody kind. It's worse. The psychological kind. And it is the mother. Yikes. Josephine likes to have her family in line. She has two pretty daughters and a son who is brilliant. Her husband works in the tech world. Things were just the way she liked them until her older daughter, Rose, ran off with a boyfriend. Now Josephine has to be twice as vigilant in order to keep her family under control. Younger daughter Violet can't physically leave but she does what she can to escape her mother's control - Eastern philosophy, hallucinogenic drugs and fasting to the extreme. All this accomplishes is to land her in the psych ward. No worries about son Will. He has Asperger's and epilepsy so Josephine has been home-schooling him so that nothing happens to him. Douglas, the father, makes his escape through a bottle. This is the story of a family falling down a hole into a very dark place. You are not going to find many likeable characters!
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