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This is a Goodreads Giveaway. I give it 4.5 stars. This was an enjoyable read, well-written and tense. Parts of the book moved a little slower than I would have liked but overall - it was a page turner! The characters are well-developed, with depth and dimensionality. The book was expertly edited and I didn't notice any typos or grammatical errors in the uncorrected manuscript. I believe this first novel will do very well and I look forward to future work from this writer.

In "Dear Hanna," Zoje Stage returns with a bone-chilling sequel to her international sensation, "Baby Teeth," immersing readers once again into the unsettling world of a young sociopath navigating adulthood.

At the heart of the story is Hanna, whose disturbing past includes a failed attempt to murder her own mother as a child. Now twenty-four and seemingly reformed through therapy and letter-writing to her younger brother, Hanna leads an outwardly normal life as a wife to Jacob and stepmother to his daughter, Joelle. But beneath the facade of domestic bliss lies Hanna's penchant for manipulation and a chilling willingness to hurt others when her carefully constructed world begins to unravel.

Stage masterfully crafts a narrative that is equal parts darkly humorous and deeply unsettling, drawing readers into Hanna's twisted psyche and the web of deceit she weaves to maintain control. As Joelle's behavior threatens Hanna's carefully laid plans, the story hurtles towards a gripping climax, leaving readers on the edge of their seats until the final, chilling conclusion.

With its compelling protagonist and relentless suspense, "Dear Hanna" is a stand-alone sequel that will captivate both returning fans and new readers alike. Stage's razor-sharp prose and knack for psychological tension make this novel a must-read for anyone craving a thrilling dive into the depths of darkness.

The darkness of this book captures a moment in time with catfishing, COVID, mental health, and toxic family relationships.

Enjoyed this book a lot. Takes place during the pandemic, which all of us had a hard time dealing with, so that hit close to home. The back and forth between the real and dream state really made ME feel like I was going crazy. Zoje Stage is such an entertaining author. Mothered was extremely enjoyable.

This book feels like it wants to be disturbing but it also doesn't understand what truly makes a book disturbing. Simply throwing words and phrases on to pages doesn't make it creepy. The baby deciding to be a weirdo and watching the parents have sex for example is it weird the baby wants the mother to die from sex which doesn't make sense because how would they know it happens so often but yet expect death from it?

There's a lot of scenes that are just supposed to be like gross out horror but it's not working because there author does not understand horror is a slow build and also a collection of emotions being provoked. For example the child will chew food up and gross combinations and spit it onto her mother's face but that's not gross because the child's been doing stuff like that this entire time. It's not a new thing or surprising it's just gross but we're supposed to feel something about it. Besides annoyed at this child.

The child also has weird comprehensions beyond their capabilities but also is a child and toxic child understands things like a child but other times will know enough that they want their mother to die. Inconsistently the series of pages that I read made me exhausted and rolling my eyes.

It feels like it wanted to be splatterpunk gore but it didn't really hit the mark, it didn't really hit any mark actually. It's just a weird attempt at being controversial but everybody reading it can tell that it's tryharding. It's not even enjoyable in a way that it makes you laugh it just makes you annoyed, cringe, or just tired. Reading it made me so tired that I kept falling asleep because some scenarios are just impossible to imagine with the child doing this or that or even attempting to kill the parent because why would a child understand such complicated things yet talk like a little baby? And when the toddler talks more adult it's in weird clunky sentences.

I don't care about the characters, I don't care about the risks, I don't care about anything going on in this book, I don't even care if somebody new comes in, I just expect them all to go the same way one way or another. Something something the child torments them. It's so quirky and unique it's not like the other girls. Ugh.

1 star and I'm not the only one rolling my eyes at this book.½

#babyteethbook #badseed #teamsuzette

Oh man, this is seriously a page turner. Like if you can read it one day/sitting please do so. So glad I got to read an ARC of this book. It was so creepy yet I could not put it down. Would love a sequel!!

This is a slow burn, phantasmagorical, novel that unfortunately doesn’t have the greatest ending. In Wonderland, the yuppie-ish Bennett family move from their small, crowded apartment in NYC, to an utterly isolated cabin in Northern NY. Why? So the husband, Shaw, can focus on his muse - a 500 year old Eastern white pine in the middle of the Adirondacks. (What??? - are you kidding me?) Orla, his wife (who happens to be a retired ballerina), is supportive until Shaw turns manic and distant and strange occurrences start to happen. For instance, their daughter Eleanor Queen senses an entity trying to communicate with her, and the homestead is beset by inexplicable phenomena. And attempts to leave are not only thwarted, but punished. The premise and set up is so perfect for some intense horror and well...

A couple of tense, even shocking, moments kept me going, hopeful that the conclusion would pay off the dreary middle, but it never really did. Stage is an excellent writer (this book has plenty of atmosphere), and it was never completely unpleasant to read Wonderland, but it never paid off either.

There are a few problems with this book (including some of the decisions made by the characters) but mainly the ending is just downright confusing. It seemed to me that Stage couldn’t really figure out how to finish the book and couldn’t settle on how she wanted to resolve the story. Is it a story of possession? Is it a story of a girl morphing into a tree evolving into a god?

The ending was too ambiguous for my taste.

That being said, Wonderland is by no means a terrible read, although it is flawed. Those looking for subtle scares and atmosphere will enjoy this one but this really isn't a "horror" novel at all. I liked this one but didn't love it. I expected more scares from this one.

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great story. many twists and the ending was not predicted.

Enjoyed this book a lot. Takes place during the pandemic, which all of us had a hard time dealing with, so that hit close to home. The back and forth between the real and dream state really made ME feel like I was going crazy. Zoje Stage is such an entertaining author. Mothered was extremely enjoyable.

This book was wild.
It’s so interesting the way it was presented. You know what’s going on with everyone very early on, but then how they navigate such an awful situation is where the bulk of the story is.
I sat here with my mouth agape a lot at what this girl dreamed up to do to her mom and I was so in love with that doctor!!!

2.5 stars
i liked the concept and the writing style but just had no plot/climax, very dry.

characters: 4
plot: 1
writing 4½

I was intrigued by this book...I've heard it referred to as " We need to talk about Kevin" meets " The Omen".....I disagree.....this is more " We need to talk about Kevin" meets " The bad seed".....except not as well written as the former and not as decisive as the latter.

The story is told from the perspective of Suzette...the Mother.......and Hanna...the daughter. Suzette is self centered, agonizingly weak, and ridiculously obsessed with her husband. Hanna is a disturbed child with both psychopathic and sociopathic traits......this is made worse by her above average intelligence, and her keen sense of perception.....she's well aware of her Mothers lack of real affection for her.

The story leaves the reader to decide who is the true monster. An enjoyable read....but, not quite what I expected.½

2.5 Stars

Hanna is a preternaturally precocious, non-verbal, home-schooled seven year old. She is the apple of her father's eye... And she is desperate to kill her mother.

Suzette is mommy. She tries to connect with and understand her child who seemingly hates her.

The book is written from both Hanna and Suzette's perspectives in alternating chapters. Suzette is kind of obsessed with her love for her husband and not wanting him to see her as a bad mother and Hanna is obsessed with her Daddy and not wanting him to see anyone else but her. Yeah, it's a little creepy but not creepy enough.

I was hoping for a

I have been a fan of every book Zoje Stage has written, and this might be my favorite one so far. As a writer, she excels at characterization and her prose is razor-sharp. Both of those things remain true here, and the claustrophobic setting adds a ton of suspense and terror to an already nail-biting story.

Absolutely incredible work. With Mothered, Stage proves she is one of the most exciting and incisive voices in modern suspense and horror.½

This is a strange book. Familiar parts of mundane life interweave with something darker, the knots getting ever tighter. Very much gothic in tone, it gets difficult to cope with in places and yet you can't put it down for long.

I'm gonna start off by saying this is way worse than WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN. In both senses. It's not as well done, but mainly, it's significantly more disturbing (if that's possible) in almost a different way. And it's very similarly done--just different enough to be worth the read.

I did not enjoy reading this. I enjoyed KEVIN. But I realised I wasn't enjoying it about 30% through and I really wanted to know how it would resolve itself. I just tried to shield my eyes from what I was reading half the time, which, y'know, didn't go so well since the book didn't keep reading itself when I did that.

I tried - this was a novel I really wanted to finish, not so much for the story itself (not my thing) but because it was causing a lot of discussion, and people seem really in one camp or another. I wanted to know what the buzz was about.

The first chapter or so were interesting - Suzette and her daughter Hanna are seeing another doctor to make sure that there is nothing physically wrong with Hanna who is mute. Doc says she is ok, and that maybe they should see a psychologist. Once home Hanna's internal dialogue reveals a twisted kid.

It was then that it started to derail for me. There wasn't really one thing but the flipping back and forth from Suzette to Hanna - their whole world like some sort of vortex that holds just the two of them - that became too insular. Hanna also became too much for me - seems like the author researched evil and threw everything she found into Hanna.

I won't give any details away, give it a shot and enjoy, or not.

I did not enjoy entering the world of lockdown again, but I must say that is a brilliant setting for a book.
Grace lives alone in her new home, when her newly widowed mother Jackie needs a place to live. Mother and daughter are estranged and their past is overshadowed by Grace's twin Hope and her death 25 years ago. Grace has lost her job due to covid and is desperately trying to find a new job. Her only comfort is her best friend Miguel and his cat Coco.
The atmosphere is claustrophobic and unreal. We have an unreliable narrator and horrific dream sequences. There are just a handful of characters and Miguel is the only one I really liked. Grace is a great character, though, independent and driven, even though she has one questionable hobby. I quite enjoyed the story. There was a moment in the middle, where the story dragged a little, but it picked up nicely afterwards. The ending was mindblowing.

"Grace felt something tearing—her skin, unzippering from her neck down. When it was loose enough, she pulled her arms out of the skin sleeves. Freed each leg like she was peeling off a pair of itchy tights. She left the skin facade on the sidewalk, with its crumpled facial features and limbs like flesh-colored noodles. What did she look like now? Pink tissue and red blood and white bits of bone ?"

Set in the height of the COVID quarantine, Grace's mother Jackie asks her if she can come stay with her, and Grace reluctantly agrees. Their relationship is strained at best, full of pain after the loss of Grace's sister. But soon after her mother arrives Grace starts having very strange dreams, And then the dreams start blending in with reality and it's hard for both her and us reading it to know what's really happening. This is a story full of psychological horror. The tension build steadily throughout the whole story.

I really enjoyed the story. Thank you netgalley and Thomas & Mercer for giving me an advanced review copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

It was intriguing enough to read again so I raised it a star but still really poor quality in my opinion. I started rereading it because a different book I was reading was too dark and I needed a break from the sadness, so naturally a book about a psychopathic child was the way to go. The characters were all the worst and extremely 2D, and it was like the author was trying to make Hanna simultaneously a genius and extremely childish in a way that didn't work at all and wasn't cohesive. I didn't like the book but at the same time, I'd definitely read a sequel. So yeah, solid 2 stars.

This book!!! So I saw that this book was described as a mixture of We Need to Talk About Kevin and The Omen and some other book----but they had me at We Need to Talk About Kevin (truly disturbing book if you haven't read it). I REALLY enjoyed this book. "Evil" kids are the stuff of nightmares and this story is a great one! When I was a kid I watched "The Bad Seed" with my mom many times and I always wondered if it was true....are some kids "born bad?" Here we are again asking the same question. Great book----I'd just love to know more!!!

This book tells a story about a selfish couple who, for whatever idiotic reason had a baby. The mother, Suzette, hated having to share her husband, Alex, with baby Hanna. Duh, baby Hanna picked up on this tout suite, and passively aggressively refused to talk. As Hanna grew older, she plotted how to get Suzette out of the house, so as to have her Daddy all to herself. Anti-Natalists will probably like it.

Suzette suffered from Crohn's Disease:
P.5:
" 'don't take too much!' She'd pleaded with the surgeon, as if he was about to Rob her, not restore her to health.
Alex had kissed her white-knuckled hand. 'it'll be fine, alsksling, you'll feel so much better, and be able to eat so much more food.'
Yes, reasonable assessments. If it wasn't for her inconsolable fear of losing so much small intestine that she'd lose the inalienable right to shit on a toilet like a normal person. People did it every day – lived with ileostomies and bags attached to their abdomens but she couldn't. couldn't. The very thought of it made her start shaking her head until Hanna twitched, glancing at her with a sour frown as if she was already stinking up the room."

Hanna hated when she saw her mother getting ready to go out and leave her with a babysitter. As soon as Suzette turned away, Hanna took the diamond earrings she planned to wear. She also had plans for the babysitter:
P.16-7:
"ABha gave her a crazed look. She hurried from the room, switching off the light and shutting the door.
Hanna knew she wouldn't come back in, even to inquire after her missing ring. Abha would probably tell Mommy and Daddy everything, but that was good. mommy would wonder if she stole ABha's ring, or pooped on the floor on purpose. but Daddy would say, poor lilla gumman isn't comfortable around strangers.
when Hanna awoke many hours later the house was dark and quiet. for the night's final act of revenge, she fished the jewelry out of Mongo's plush back. But on second thought, she put the ring back; she liked it, maybe she'd want to wear it someday, when she got bigger.
Plop! Plop! two diamond earrings, into the toilet. for good measure she had a quick pee before flushing everything away. she remembered watching the shiny bobbles circle and spin before the tidal wave carried them away forever. Mommy never set her treasures beside her bed again. Or called in another babysitter...."

Suzette actually rewards Hanna's bad behavior, when, in a grocery store where a toddler is throwing a tantrum, Hanna decides to punish him:
P.22:
" 'brandon, you know better...' Said the other mother.
before Suzette could stop her, Hanna Drew back a closed, determined fist and struck the boy on the side of the head. The boy tottered, stunned, then dropped to his bottom.
'Oh no!' Suzette rushed over, tugging Hanna away. 'I'm sorry – we're so sorry!'
the mother scooped Brandon into her arms, her face alight with shock. he burst into tears, breathy cries of pain.
'is he okay? I'm so sorry!' Suzette glared down at hanna. 'we do not hit people!'
Hannah pointed at the boy, her silent way of condemning him as the instigator.
the mother held him away from them, checking his eye, his ear, the soft spot along his Temple. She bounced him, trying to soothe his tears.
reading the hateful, how-dare-you-make-my-day-worse glower on the mother's face, Suzette clutched Hanna's hand and escaped to the checkout lanes. She would have just left, abandoned the cart, and fled in shame. but things would get worse if Hanna had to leave the store without her treat.

Suzette couldn't find a school that would take Hanna for more than a few days, before her stunts would get her expelled:
P.69-70:
"everybody knew Sunshine was particularly fond of fruit punch. she refused to drink water and shrunk away from milk like she'd been offered a glass of poop. At first she was the only one who got fruit punch at snack time, but then the other kids grumbled and pleaded, and Mrs smiley blew out her cheeks and filled everyone's cup with Sunshine's red elixir. but then the parents caught on and didn't want their children drinking red dye number 40 sugar water – that's what mommy called it – so Sunshine had to have her snack alone.
while Mrs smiley was busy with the other children, Hanna found a cup of red paint. She carried it against her body so no one would see. And while no one was looking, she stole an extra Dixie cup and slipped it into the bathroom with the miniature sink and toilet. the bathroom with its tiny fixtures was her favorite thing about kindergarten, and she almost wished daddy would redo the bathroom she used at home. She poured a wee bit of the red paint into the cup, then filled up the rest with water....
'don't push me,' Sunshine said, pouting, taking a step back. Maybe Hanna had given her a little shove or accidental bump once or twice in the past, but that wasn't what she had in mind.
She shook her head, so Sunshine would know she was safe . The girl still looked wary. Hanna held out the cup of red . You'll like this.
Sunshine's eyes went hungry.
'fruit punch?'
Hanna nodded.
'oh. thank you.' sunshine was such a polite girl. mommy would like her. mommy made sure Hanna knew about please and thank you, even if she wouldn't say the words out loud.
Sunshine took big gulps from the cup and swallowed it down. Hanna couldn't stop herself: she reached out and stroked the girl's fine golden hair.
but before Sunshine got all of it down, she gagged, choking on the liquid still in her mouth. It dribbled down her chin like blood.
Hanna smiled, thinking of a better trick with crushed pieces of glass."

Suzette and Alex are so horny for each other that they're not careful about having sex behind a closed, locked, bedroom door. One night, shortly after Hanna has been put to bed, they succumb to their hormones out in the living room. Hanna hears them, all the way into her room, and goes to the landing of the stairs, and takes in the whole show:
P.128:
"... Was the window open? maybe a neighbor was enjoying the sunny afternoon, fucking en plein air? Though it didn't really seem like something the neighbors would do.
she glanced at the clock glowing on her shelf. She hadn't slept that long, maybe 20 minutes.
with a dawning horror, she realized the gasps and moans were coming from within her house, from down the hallway.
she shook off the remnants of her nap and barreled out of the room, unable to process what was happening or what she expected to find. The sounds led her to Hanna's room–
who's raping my child?
Hanna lay on the bed beneath her yellow comforter in her small but sunny room. For a moment, Suzette thought she'd found her engaged in an exuberant experiment in masturbation. Hanna's denim shorts lay on the floor with the smiling curl of her pink striped underpants, and she could see the girl bucking and riding beneath the comforter. but her hands were gripping it and her head was moving in such a way on her pillow like someone was thrusting against her.
Suzette stood there for a moment, unsure what to do. what was even happening? Her daughter's knees made a tent of the fabric and she moved and sounded like she was enjoying a fine afternoon of Hearty intercourse.
'stop it! What are you doing?'
Hanna looked at her, neither startled nor embarrassed. She smiled as her invisible lover resumed making love to her. Suzette grimaced, inhaling with disgust even as it scared her to see her child gasp and ride like a fully sexualized adult. She ripped back the comforter, but of course no one and nothing was there. Hanna pulled her knees together and turned over onto her side, giggling.
'what are you doing?' She snatched up the panties and shorts and restrained herself from throwing them at Hanna's face. she dropped them next to the pillow, her hand shaking. 'get dressed.'
'That's how I get my power. from the devil, when he comes to me.' "

Hanna has the password for Daddy's computer. This little monster looks up witches, and spells on how to "get rid" of somebody:
P.242-3:
"it was clear now. The spell of Vengeance and Attack made mommy stumble. The spell coated her with alcohol. Fire accelerant.
it was up to her to do the rest.
mommy pulled up her feet, shrinking into the corner of her chair, eyes big and afraid. Hanna kept her spell focused, directed at Mommy through two outstretched fingers, and mouthed the words. suffer and cease to be. suffer and cease to be.
She prodded the flames with her stick. fished for a burning Branch. and flung it out of the copper pit.
Mommy screamed as it landed in her lap. She scrambled out of her chair. Fell. pushed the burning Branch away with her bare hands.
Hanna used her stick like a shovel, gripped in both fists, scooping out burning embers. They landed on mommy's legs. Her foot. Mommy squealed and kicked, trying to wriggle away.
she swept more embers out of the fire, hurling them at mommy.
They attacked her like vampire lightning bugs.
Mommy howled and cried.
the tip of her stick glowed a molten orange, and Hanna knew just what to do. Mommy's hands were flapping on her pants, trying to extinguish some burning threads. Hanna aimed the stick right at Mommy's eye, but at the last minute mommy looked up and Hannah's aim went awry. She plunged the fiery stick into her cheek, where it made a sizzling sound. mommy screamed, and wrenched the weapon from her hands.
in the next instant daddy was there, a bowl in his hands. He tossed it on mommy, on the fluttering, enflamed bits.
He picked up Hanna. and threw her."

Alex and Suzette finally take Hanna to a child psychologist, who recommends an institution, Marshes, for children with behavioral problems. Suzette can't believe her luck: she is going to have Alex all to herself, once again:
P.265:
" 'so, after speaking with her... Had it just been her drawings, I might have concluded there's something going on that's making her jealous, or some sort of more typical mother-daughter, caregiver-child issues... Masked in a kind of fantasy play. and maybe there is a bit of a struggle, with reality. but this is more than even severe Oppositional Defiant Disorder. The drawings she made really clarified the intent behind the actions you described – the thumbtacks, the fire. your injuries.' Your ruined face. 'and I think we need to take these intentions very seriously, especially seeing how quickly things have escalated.' "

P.268-9:
"Suzette hated how tepid and cautious Beatrix [the child psychologist] sounded. The whole prospect of Marshes appealed to Suzette because it fulfilled two primary functions: get Hanna out of the house for a short time, and return her when they were all better equipped to live happily ever after. 'okay' Smacked of mediocrity. 'okay' wasn't a promise of future happiness.
'isn't there... Anything else?' Alex asked. 'out treatment?'
'regular therapy sessions...' Beatrix shook her head. 'it's not enough. Suzette's life will be in real danger if Hanna remains in the house. That, more than anything else, is crystal clear.'
Scarcely breathing, Suzette waited for Alex to look at her. who would he choose? She dreaded the possibility where, to spare Hanna an impatient facility, he'd suggest that Suzette move out. Leave them.
But he looked at her with longing, with tears.
'I should never have doubted you,' he said. 'maybe it's my fault, that staying home isn't an option for her anymore. If I'd listened to you sooner... I just couldn't believe... Anyone, when they said how bad she was, at school, everyone. and sometimes – I could never say this, I can't say this – I've missed you so much, and I felt guilty. Guilty because you were right: being parents changed us, the two of us. And it killed me to think how it had been between us, before hanna. You, all to myself. Then I felt like I owed her more, because what sort of father has moments of regret...' "

P.271:
" 'but... If she doesn't adjust... At some point, there has to be an agreement... We can't just send her out to be miserable and not care what happens after she's gone. if she's miserable, if she's worse –'
'she's not going to prison. They'll communicate with you. plus, you can both see me – and I can communicate with them. and there will be visiting opportunities. If she speaks... Supervised phone calls, and Skype chats can be arranged too. You're helping hanna, because you love her. and you want her to have the best possible future.'
'we'll get her through this. we're not giving up on her.' We're saving us. Suzette squeezed Alex's hand. She had to get the words right. She had to get him to accept what was happening. maybe her face would heal better than she hoped, but until then... She couldn't have Hanna around as a constant reminder. A constant threat. and the possibility of having Alex back – the two of them, as they were before Hanna – filled her with a giddy longing.
BLeary-eyed, he nodded mechanically. 'what do we tell her? To get her ready?' "

P.275:
"Hanna's eyes lit up. She turned to daddy; he must have been thinking the same thing. is this really mommy? Mommy with a good idea?
'fantastic, alskling.' He kissed mommy's cheek. The good one.
she didn't have her hands and feet all wrapped up anymore, so Hanna took that as a sign that everything was almost fine. it was time for her to figure out what to do next – her biggest, bestest attack yet. if she were mommy, she probably would have stayed mad a little bit longer. Maybe mommy was still planning some sort of future revenge. Hanna would keep an eye on her, just in case, but she felt safe with Daddy there, and she really really really wanted her own BumbleBeast."

P.280:
"Hanna waved at Daddy but he surprised her by dropping to his knees and giving her a big hug and kiss. 'love you, lilla gumman, love you so much.'
she hugged him back and raised the volume on her pitter-patter heart so he could hear her love.
Mommy's goodbye was less forceful. she held a wisp of Hanna's hair between her fingers. Kissed her cheek. 'see you later, alligator.'
As Hanna started toward the door with Brown Teeth, mommy burst into giggles. everyone looked at her, and mommy had to clamp a hand over her mouth and murmer some apologies. Hanna couldn't make sense of her parents Tangled-Up emotions so she shook her head a little, trying to clear it of confusion. Brown Teeth extended her hand, wanting her to take it. She didn't, but she followed her, hoping they would go outside."


After a few days, Hanna "finds" her voice, just in time to call home and beg to come back:
P.298-9:
" 'I don't like it here and the kids are mean. Please, I'll be good, I promise.'
the surface of suzette's heart started to peel away, like the skin of an apple beneath a skilled knife. Their child wanted them and missed her home. the longing in her voice was so plaintive. Yet Suzette felt herself ready to snuff Hanna's wishes. she and Alex still had so much work to do with Beatrix, and the initial reports they received from Marsh's were

I feel as though this novel depended more upon the bizarre atmosphere rather than frightening ghosts, which is what I was expecting, but it was a pretty good read. The setting was extremely isolated, wooded and very cold. This alone upped the creep factor significantly. The middle of the book did feel a little lack-luster to me though. All in all, it was a decent book.

Two sisters and a friend go on a hike in the Grand Canyon and on the second day encounter a man who is on the run after shooting a deputy. He kidnaps our imprisons them so his whereabouts went be reported. Their challenge is how either to escape or get him to free them. The story exams the hopes and fears of the young women and their past as friends and sisters. The depiction of the Grand Canyon experience isn’t bad and enriched the story.