Book guide
Sharp Objects
A troubled reporter returns to her tiny hometown to investigate two murders and is forced to confront the psychological wounds of her own past.
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About Sharp Objects
Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family's Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims—a bit too strongly. Dogged by her own demons, she must unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past if she wants to get the story—and survive this homecoming.
Reading signals
- Spice
- None
- Darkness
- Dark
- Pacing
- Balanced
Content warnings
- murder of children
- mental illness
- psychiatric hospitalization
- family dysfunction
- self-harm
- graphic self-harm
- parental abuse
- emotional abuse
- verbal abuse
- rape mentioned
- sexual assault
- alcoholism
- drug abuse
- animal cruelty
- gore
- suicide mentioned
- eating disorder mentioned
- sexual content and masturbation
- poisoning and medical abuse
- animal slaughter
