Review: powerful
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 6, 2013
The Truth About Pretty Girls is a short story by popular American author, Karin Slaughter. Fifty-six-year-old Jude Hanson finds herself almost incredulous about her current situation: after a life seemingly in self-destruct mode, she is back in her childhood home in the Georgia mountain town of Poulet with the mother she couldn’t wait to leave; she is driving to the bus station to pick up the son she hasn’t seen in thirty-six years, the son she should never have had…… This short but powerful offering from Karin Slaughter touches on a myriad of subjects: mothering instinct (or lack of it); ageing, menopause, health and mortality; therapy; privilege and potential. Slaughter creates a moving short story with a deliciously ironic ending.