Reminiscent of her classic story \'The Lottery\', Jackson\'s disturbing and darkly funny first novel exposes the underside of American suburban life.
In. (Donna Tartt). "Her books penetrate keenly to the terrible truths which sometimes hide behind comfortable fictions, to the treachery beneath cheery neighborhood faces and the plain manners of country folk; to the threat that sparkles at the rainbow\'s edge of the sprinkler spray on even the greenest lawns, on the sunniest of midsummer mornings".
Reminiscent of her classic story \'The Lottery\', Jackson\'s disturbing and darkly funny first novel exposes the underside of American suburban life