Stay-at-home mom Blythe comes from a long line of bad mothers, so when she can't connect with her daughter, Violet, she's afraid that the curse has continued with her. While Violet gets along just fine with her husband — clings to him and has him wrapped around her finger, actually — it seems like Blythe can do nothing to get her daughter to warm up to her. Perhaps something is wrong with Violet? Unfortunately, Blythe's husband doesn't seem to understand, and thinks that she's overreacting. But as incidents mount up, Blythe can't get rid of the niggling though that she's raising a psychopath.
Holy cow is this a creepy book! Audrain hits the doubts and fears of motherhood with such precision and detail, and the relationships with such delicacy, that it's hard to tell, even 3/4 of the way through the book, who's sane, who's overreacting, and who's to blame. Not something I'd recommend for new mothers, but if you want to be royally unsettled, this is a good one to pick up.
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