A review by scknitter
Girl A by Abigail Dean

4.0

Girl A is a beautifully written story that tells of horrible atrocities. It is a story about the slow slide into mental illness/paranoia by Charles Gracie (Girl A’s father) and how this led to the unimaginable existence that became reality for Lex (Girl A) and her 6 siblings. Dean does an amazing job telling the story from Lex’s viewpoint but at the same time showing us how each child (treated by different psychologists and adopted by different parents) lived after escaping the House of Horrors, as their home came to be known. The ultimate psychological drama, it is an in depth look at how a family can deteriorate into the depths of unimaginable horror with no one doing anything to stop it and how each one fares in the aftermath.