Amy Engel is the author of The Roanoke Girls and The Book of Ivy series.A former criminal defense attorney, she lives in Missouri with her family.
Engel's new novel is The Familiar Dark.
At CrimeReads she tagged five of her "favorite novels that tackle the complicated bond between mothers and daughters," including:
Carrie by Stephen KingRead about the other entries on the list.
The mother-daughter relationship in this one is a doozy. Carrie and her religious zealot of a mother have a dysfunctional, co-dependent relationship dialed up to ten. There is love betweenthem, but also abuse, fear, and loathing. And Carrie is a daughter who has finally had enough. An extreme example of what happens when the mother-daughter relationship goes horribly awry.
Carrie is on Lizzy Barber's list of five of the most chilling extreme religion believers in fiction, Katie Lowe's top ten list of books about angry women, Jo Jakeman's list of the ten best revenge novels, Ania Ahlborn's list of ten of the scariest books of all time, Jeff Somers's list of the five worst mothers in literary history, Becky Ferreira's list of six of the most memorable bullies in literature, Julie Buntin's list of favorite literary kids with deadbeat and/or absent dads, Gregg Olsen's top ten list of deadly YA books, and James Dawson's top ten list of books to get you through high school.
--Marshal Zeringue
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