Loretta is living in a trailer with a violent and sexually abusive father and her abused mother. Jake is being abused by his older brother and made to join in actual felonies, not to mention white supremacy nonsense and recruitment. Other than The Freak, who is the least stuck person on the planet, we meet five characters, all teens, who are in terrible situations. King in that it features a cast of characters who are terribly stuck in their lives. Without getting into it too much, Still Life echoed a whole lot of bad things about my past.ĭig is quintessential A.S. After I read this yesterday, I also read Still Life With Tornado, one of the most upsetting books for someone with a history of a severely dysfunctional family.
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