I was listening to the song “Dirt” by Elyse Saunders and realized I was in the mood for a book that has a similar feel to it, and I know they have to be out there. If you haven’t heard it, it’s basically a song about how we all have secrets/things we do in private that we hope no one knows about. The message is “no one’s perfect,” but I’m looking more for “This family is insane and everyone needs therapy.”
In search of books with secrets, generational mess, family dynamics that make you uncomfortable but keep you hooked, etc. 🙂
by mirandaamandawhatevr
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Maybe The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz
You have to give it a bit to get there.
The Family Plot by Megan Collins
The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
C. E. Morgan, The sport of kings
Flowers in the Attic and My Sweet Audrina by VC Andrews.
This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
[The Sundial](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/131181.The_Sundial) by Shirley Jackson? it’s an absolute riot of a story!
Here’s the first few paragraphs:
>After the funeral they came back to the house, now indisputably Mrs. Halloran’s. They stood uneasily, without any certainty, in the large lovely entrance hall, and watched Mrs. Halloran go into the right wing of the house to let Mr. Halloran know that Lionel’s last rites had gone off without melodrama. Young Mrs. Halloran, looking after her mother-in-law, said without hope, “Maybe she will drop dead on the doorstep. Fancy, dear, would you like to see Granny drop dead on the doorstep?”
>“Yes, mother.” Fancy pulled at the long skirt of the black dress her grandmother had put on her.
>“I am going to pray for it as long as I live,” said young Mrs. Halloran, folding her hands together devoutly.
>“Shall I push her?” Fancy asked. “Like she pushed my daddy?”
>“Fancy!” said Miss Ogilvie.
>“Let her say it if she wants,” young Mrs. Halloran said. “I want her to remember it, anyway. Say it again, Fancy baby.”
>“Granny killed my daddy,” said Fancy obediently. “She pushed him down the stairs and killed him. Granny did it. Didn’t she?”
Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
The House We Grew Up In by Lisa Jewell