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"Morrow uses her heroine's warped perspective to examine painful truths
about race and class in America, but this isn't a book intended to teach
anyone a lesson, except maybe: Be careful. You never know who's really
in control."--Los Angeles Times
From bestselling author Bethany C. Morrow comes a new adult social
horror novel in the vein of Get Out meets My Sister, the Serial
Killer, about Farrah, a young, calculating Black girl who manipulates
her way into the lives of her Black best friend's white, wealthy,
adoptive family but soon suspects she may not be the only one with
ulterior motives. . . .
Seventeen-year-old Farrah Turner is one of two Black girls in her
country club community, and the only one with Black parents. Her best
friend, Cherish Whitman, adopted by a white, wealthy family, is
something Farrah likes to call WGS--White Girl Spoiled. With Brianne and
Jerry Whitman as parents, Cherish is given the kind of adoration and
coddling that even upper-class Black parents can't seem to afford--and
it creates a dissonance in her best friend that Farrah can exploit. When
her own family is unexpectedly confronted with foreclosure, the
calculating Farrah is determined to reassert the control she's convinced
she's always had over her life by staying with Cherish, the only person
she loves--even when she hates her.
As troubled Farrah manipulates her way further into the Whitman family,
the longer she stays, the more her own parents suggest that something is
wrong in the Whitman house. She might trust them--if they didn't think
something was wrong with Farrah, too. When strange things start
happening at the Whitman household--debilitating illnesses, upsetting
fever dreams, an inexplicable tension with Cherish's hotheaded
boyfriend, and a mysterious journal that seems to keep track of what is
happening to Farrah--it's nothing she can't handle. But soon everything
begins to unravel when the Whitmans invite Farrah closer, and it's
anyone's guess who is really in control.
Told in Farrah's chilling, unforgettable voice and weaving in searing
commentary on race and class, this slow-burn social horror will keep you
on the edge of your seat until the last page.
