And of course, as the novel unfolds, so does the mystery of what happened to the rest of their family. The two sisters, Merricat and Constance, go about their days, but their lives seemed suspended in the shadows of events that happened many years ago. It’s unclear who is more fearful of whom - the girls or the townspeople. Here, two sisters live in a large mansion, estranged and distanced from the rest of the town, and caring for their elderly uncle. Her stories tend to be about dark, complicated people who do dark, complicated things. Shirley Jackson, who most people know from her short story “The Lottery” which almost everyone read in grade school at some point, has a particularly dark and suspenseful brand of writing and it shines in We Have Always Lived in the Castle. Hmm, I seem to have read quite a few books about crazy people lately. By Jennifer Marie Lin on Dec 10th, 2014 (Last Updated Sep 19th, 2019)
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