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The Marsh King's Daughter
by Karen Dionne
Very good! A horrible story of course but so well told. Jacob kidnaps a 16 year old girl & takes her to live in the marsh in the U.P. Years later, the 12-year old daughter Helena and her mother escape Jacob. 15 years later, Jacob escapes prison, killing 4 men, and comes after now-married Helena and her husband and two young daughters. This is kind of like a sequel (in a sideways manner) to The Room, telling the story of the child of kidnapper and kidnapee. Author does a great job of explaining why Helena loved her father, and feared him, and ran away, and how that relationship (and how she was brought up) affected her personality.