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Pieces of Her

by Karin Slaughter

A daughter confronts the secrets behind her mother’s identity

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A daughter confronts the secrets behind her mother’s identity

Andrea believes she knows her mother, Laura, until an outbreak of violence at a mall reveals a side of her she has never seen. The discovery that Laura has spent decades hiding an earlier identity turns a family bond into the center of a police investigation and a search through the past. As Laura refuses to explain herself, Andrea follows clues to understand what happened before her mother became the person she knows. The novel combines a mystery about concealed history with a mother-daughter relationship under pressure, framing the question of how much one person can truly know about another.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in psychological thrillers involving family secrets and hidden identities.
  • Readers who enjoy mysteries shaped by a police investigation.
  • Readers drawn to mother-daughter relationships under strain.

Themes

Family secretsIdentity and reinventionTrust between parent and childThe past resurfacing

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Book overview

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PIECES OF HER

What if the person you thought you knew best turns out to be someone you never knew at all . . . ?

Andrea knows everything about her mother, Laura. She knows she's spent her whole life in the small beachside town of Belle Isle; she knows she's never wanted anything more than to live a quiet life as a pillar of the community; she knows she's never kept a secret in her life. Because we all know our mothers, don't we?

But all that changes when a trip to the mall explodes into violence and Andrea suddenly sees a completely different side to Laura in this gripping psychological thriller. Because it turns out that before Laura was Laura, she was someone completely different. For nearly thirty years she's been hiding from her previous identity, lying low in the hope that no one would ever find her. But now she's been exposed, and with a dangerous web of family secrets unraveling, nothing will ever be the same again.

The police want answers and Laura's innocence is on the line, but she won't speak to anyone, including her own daughter. In a compelling story that explores a complex mother daughter relationship, Andrea is on a desperate journey following the breadcrumb trail of her mother's past. And if she can't uncover the secrets hidden there, there may be no future for either one of them. . . .

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