Started: 11.4.26
Finished: 17.4.26
Paperback
TBR Prompt: Body part in the title
This is the story of Marjorie, a 14 year old girl who starts to display problematic behaviour. Is it mental illness or something else? A psychiatrist doesn't seem to have helped, so her father, turning increasingly towards his faith, brings in the local priest who believes she may be possessed by a demon. Told from the POV of her younger sister Merry, we watch the gradual unravelling of the family as they seek to understand what is happening, even resorting to being filmed for a reality TV show. It remained ambiguous as to the cause of Marjorie's behaviour; her explanations for it varied between believable and far-fetched.
There are a few nods to horror films (an obvious one being The Exorcist) and other horror writers (and even one to Mr Tremblay himself!) which he explains in his extended liner notes at the end of the book; I enjoyed reading these.
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